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This race has become a three-team tossup. After looking invincible during August, the Red Sox have tumbled into a tail spin. Even 20-game Winner Luis Tiant could not halt a losing streak that dropped the Red Sox into second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals...
Toss-Up. Nor is there any certainty that Heath would win. Although the Conservatives seem to have an edge, recent polls show that an election now would be a tossup. Indeed, there is a feeling in many quarters that Britons would prefer to vote against both Heath and Opposition Labor Leader Harold Wilson. As the Financial Times's Joe Rogaly put it last week, "My first reaction [to news that an election might be called] was, goodness, how awful if one of them wins...
...began an expected parade of layoffs by furloughing 950 employees, including 300 pilots. Eastern mailed layoff notices to 360 pilots. United President Edward E. Carlson, who once predicted a 4% rise in airline revenues next year, now expects "zero" growth. The effect on profits is a tossup: airlines will be helped by higher fares and the running of their remaining flights more fully loaded, but hurt by higher costs for jet fuel and ground maintenance of mothballed planes...
...been a sentimental journey. One look at the playing conditions was enough to dampen any thought of old school ties. A driving rain had turned the artificial turf into one big slippery sponge. The game, which was supposed to have been a romp for the Trojans, turned into a tossup. After 30 minutes of fumbles and false starts, neither team had scored, and U.S.C. sloshed into the locker room at half time for the Trojan equivalent of a pep talk. It was hardly the stuff that movies are made of. McKay quietly told his defensive unit that "you can make...
Wall-to-wall signs notwithstanding, the meet rates as a virtual tossup. The intangibles that a traditional rivalry always add further complicate the meet. Harvard seems to hold a slight edge in the field, and Yale the advantage in the running events, with a number of events so uncertain that they could go heavily either...