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Rematch? Mismatch was more like it. By game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
Harvard had jumped out to an early eight-point lead Saturday afternoon after Crimson performers finished surprisingly well in the shot, the 35-pound weight, and the broad jump...
...public regard him with something approaching awe. Yet respect, even adulation, are intangibles. Hockey has also given Hull the tangible trappings that befit its reigning king. Chicago is paying Bobby $40,000 this season, and if the second-place Black Hawks can overcome the Montreal Canadiens' eight-point lead in the East Division-or better yet, win the Stanley Cup-there will be some fancy bonus money as well. Next year, Hull says, he will demand $100,000, more than twice what any player has ever received before. But it still will not match his outside income. Endorsements (Ford...
...CONSUMERS: In an eight-point program to "assure every American consumer a fair and honest exchange for his hard-earned dollar," the President proposed 1) a crackdown on salesmen's frauds, 2) a major study of automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel...
...point lead caused Yale to call a worried time-out. Then the Elis administered a zone press as Yale guards Rich Stone and Bob McCallum forced Harvard into numerous turnovers. Royer and Kanuth triggered a short comeback which cut the Yale lead from a high of 16 to the eight-point half-time margin...