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...Cinderella team is none other than U.C.L.A. After Wooden retired as coach in 1975, the Bruins became merely mortal. But this year they are plainly back in contention. No longer the mighty lords of college ball, they are pretenders, nonetheless, a jerry-built squad that entered the championships with a so-so regular-season record of 17 wins and 9 losses. U.C.L.A. finished a humiliating fourth in its own conference, the Pac-10, after dropping four games on its home court. In the previous 15 seasons, U.C.L.A. had lost only seven times at Pauley Pavilion...
Carle capped her career with a so-so four-point performance, but when she fouled out with 2:19 remaining, the crowd jumped to its feet and treated her to a 30-second ovation...
...Baltimore Orioles, Steinbrenner soured on Lemon. Back came brash Billy with all his old ego and temperament intact. Yankee fans, who like Lemon but always loved Billy the more, greeted the prodigal with cheers and applause seldom equaled since Ruth in his prime, which isn't bad for a so-so infielder with a lifetime batting average...
Some mergers enhance competition. Oil would seem an unlikely industry for this to occur in. But Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, argued that the acquisition in 1966 by the Atlantic Refining Co. of the Richfield Oil Corp. turned two so-so firms into a company strong enough to compete against the industry giants. Yet Bradshaw noted that his powers, like those of every high corporate executive, are severely limited: "Every decision made at my desk is influenced by some and sometimes most of the following: environmentalists, consumers, tax reformers, antinuclear protesters, the constraints of Government, the DOE [Department...
Restaurants have bloomed like mamane flowers;, there are some 160, most of them so-so or ho-ho. Among the best: Inter-Continental's La Perouse (where the resident harp player is truly named Holly Angel), Wailea Beach's Raffles, Robaire's, Kimo's and Chez Paul, a French bistro in a beat-up storefront near Lahaina that is owned by a Boston Irishman named Paul Kirk (fortunately, his French wife Fernanda presides over the stove...