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...Boston up 3-2 at 16:30 of period two when he tipped home Brad Park's slapshot from the point for what turned out to be the winning tally, but the prospect of a seventh game seemed anything but certain until "Stan the Man"--"he's a scrapper," said Mike Milbury--Jonathan introduced samurai hockey to the sell-out crowd...
...shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not impressed, and several years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts...
Deepening Relationship. The party's right wing, which prefers confrontation rather than compromise with the Communists, largely prevailed. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, was elected president of the party's national council, an honorary post that would give him a handy platform for the campaign. A tough scrapper, the self-styled "Tuscan Pony" likes nothing better than a tussle with the Communists, whose party organ L'Unita huffily described his resurrection as "partly pathetic and partly provocative." While Fanfani makes his pitch to voters on the right, beleaguered Premier Moro, 59, and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini...
...Franklin might have been pinned, but he had a good performance," Lee said. "He's a helluva scrapper...
...that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes his partisan role seriously and is a far more abrasive and belligerent scrapper AP than either Majority Leader Mike Mansfield or Kennedy...