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...Treasury and private corporations for borrowed funds. Despite strong pressures for additional spending on anti-recessionary proposals, the Senate finally accepted the recommendations of its Budget Committee for such programs as the $9 billion recovery-program amendment sponsored by Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. By a squeaker vote of 200 to 196, the House also accepted its Budget Committee's recommendation with one major change-a $3 billion reduction in the deficit, to $70 billion...
...Crimson nine dropped a 3-2 squeaker to Army in the first game of Saturday's twin-bill, and the end of its supremacy in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League is now in sight...
...holidays were filled with footballs. The pro play-offs opened with victories for Minnesota, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; in Oakland the Raiders scored the biggest win of all with a wacky 28-26 squeaker over the defending Super Bowl champion Dolphins. And when the pros were taking a breather, the college bowl games competed for the fan's attention. Almost unnoticed amidst all the hoopla, Federal District Court Judge William T. Sweigert handed down a decision in San Francisco that threw the National Football "League for a loss. It could upset the basic structure of labor-management relations...
After going winless in their first two matches against Rutgers and Springfield, the Crimson grapplers will have little chance to break into the scoring column against a Terrier squad that has blanked New Hampshire, destroyed Massachusetts, and lost a squeaker to Rhode Island, the best team in New England...
Dave Bing and Bob Lanier led the Detroit Pistons over the Boston Celtics in a squeaker last night at Boston Garden, 105-104. Bing finished with 32 points, including the decisive basket that made the score 105-100 in the final minute. Lanier picked up 27 points...