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...Barnett outlasted Dartmouth's Rick Woolworth to win that tournament, 7-6, 2-6, 7-6 in a cliffhanger final set decided on the ninth point of a five-out-of-nine tiebreaker. Barnett completed a fine weekend by teaming with Loring to win the C doubles...
...make some cash refunds to their customers. Last week a number of firms either were ordered to cut some prices or voluntarily announced reductions. The companies ranged in size from Ford Motor Co., which lowered the price tag on 31 car models by $16 to $50, and F.W. Woolworth Co., which was ordered to reinstate last summer's prices at its lunch counters, down to a little-known Texas garbage-disposal concern...
...forced to "disgorge" excess profits in the form of lower prices-low enough to balance out the original overcharges. Grayson's choice of metaphor was unhappy, since the first products to which it applied were the sandwiches, French fries and other short-order items served up at F.W. Woolworth lunch counters. Their managers had violated the rules by raising prices without obtaining advance approval, and as a result had to lower the tab for a hamburger in midtown Manhattan, for example, from 70? to 65?. Four other large but lesser-known merchandisers were also ordered to roll back prices...
...longest match of the day, Harvard veteran Chris Nielson fell to skinny sophomore Rick Woolworth, 6-4, 7-5, in a match marked by long volleys and consistent returns...
...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...