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Bobby Orr broke out of a scoring slump with two goals and two assists as the Boston Bruins outmuscled Philadelphia, 5-1, last night at the Garden to stay alive in the National Hockey League playoffs with the upstart Flyers...
Meanwhile, the Yardling ten stretched their own battle record to 4-0 with exciting win over the upstart preppies from Phillips Andover Academy...
...impressive games played by a collegiate star including last year's NCAA finals when he dropped in 21 of 22 shots from all over the field and a couple from what appeared to be several rows up in the stands to lead the UCLA'ns to the championship over upstart Memphis State. But this year, in what is supposed-to-be-wonder-year of the Bruins, Walton and All-American teammate Keith Wilkes looked at times as if they were playing with four left hands...
...Labor Party won the most seats in the House of Commons -but did not win a majority. The Tories took the popular vote- 11.9 million v. 11.7 million for Labor-but they also lost 26 seats and their comfortable 16-seat majority in the last Parliament. The upstart Liberals got their biggest vote in history, but it converted into disproportionately few seats. Confronted with those agonizingly close results, Prime Minister Edward Heath advised Queen Elizabeth that, contrary to British custom, he would not resign in favor of Labor's Harold Wilson but would try to keep his embattled party...
When Princeton arrived in Cambridge last weekend, it was the King of Eastern Swimming. The Tigers managed to slip past upstart Harvard and pretty much mauled everyone else last year to wrest away the championship of the Eastern Swim League from its traditional owners and take it back to New Jersey. But the wave of swimming fortune crested and broke too soon for the Tigers this year as their loss to the Crimson last weekend just about paved the way for Harvard to take the Easterns...