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...defensive sweeper Dupuis said yesterday. "We have to fight the urge to be cocky, so I guess I'm glad that Wheaton is also undefeated. We won't be overconfident. Although we really don't know much about them, I'm sure that it will be one of our tougher games...
...questions at Kirbo. Why were phone calls to the Carter headquarters not returned? Why the foolish Playboy interview? Why not put some political heavyweights on the Carter plane? Along with the questions came suggestions. The candidate should spend less time at minor-league stops. He should take on a tougher defense posture. Then the Kirbo trouble squad met with a larger group of Congressmen and the next day visited with delegations from four crucial states: Michigan, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania...
...forces looked up from his post on downtown Jameson Avenue as the season's first dark rain clouds came scudding over the rooftops. "Damn," he said, scowling to his partner. "I was hoping it would hold off a bit longer. The 'terrs' [white Rhodesians' shorthand for terrorists] will be tougher than ever in the rains this year...
Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, said yesterday he is "very glad that the Schmidt government is retaining power. No matter what misgivings others have, the effort by Mr. Kohl's party to have a tougher anti-Communist line in mid-Europe could only have increased tensions among the European countries...
...tougher questions. Robert Hughes, Republican chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, thought that last week's panel tossed too many soft questions at the candidates. "Where were the tough questions? Abortion. Busing. Playboy. The purpose of these debates is to challenge these two guys, and that wasn't done...