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...fight, which occurred at a special Labor Party meeting held in London's Wembley Conference Center, was intense and bitter, but in the end it was a rout. By a margin of 54% to 46%, the conference of Members of Parliament, labor unions and grass-roots party organizers voted to strip M.P.s of their traditional right to elect their own leader. That responsibility will go in the future to a new electoral college in which the more militant unions and the radical local party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader...
Fans who collected in the IAB Saturday afternoon saw anything but a typical rout, though a rout it was. The game was exciting, often sloppy, and even occasionally dazzling, regardless of what the scoreboard was recording. If there is such a thing as karma, it resides in the righthand basket of the IAB. At least for the cagers...
...site for the presidential library (one look at the tired old building indicates its inadequacy, however nice the thought). Speculations resolve into two camps. The most enthusiastic are from businessmen, who hope for Jimmy's return as a new charge on the tourist magnet (even in the Reagan rout, more than 35 million potential visitors did vote for Jimmy, including a good number of oldtimers who can stop off on their way to winter in Florida...
When Sue Newell sat down in the penalty box for tripping at 10:05, the Tigers seemed destined for their fourth consecutive rout. But the foursome of Fischer, Lightfoot, rising Yardling star Megan Berthold, and co-captain Lauren Norton, whose poise and drive anchored a superlative effort by the defensive corps, not only snuffed out the Princeton power play, but tallied a shorthanded goal to knot the game...
Hurley, who played four years of puck at Andover, converted the rebound from a Fischer slapshot in a scramble in front to continue Harvard's rout in the second period. Sue Yunick stuffed home a centering pass from co-captain Firkins Reed for number five...