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Holmes, undefeated this season, practiced every wrestling element except restraint on Lion George Crum in the 167-lb. match. Holmes was awarded the technical pin after taking a 17-2 lead early in the third round. His victory gave the Crimson its last five points of the afternoon...
Snow-football enthusiasts said they found thegame more enjoyable than ordinary football becausesnow "adds an element of slipperiness" to thegame...
...hotly that his group is racist or white supremacist, but rambles on about minority gangs and the "poison ideas on the streets" that come from other countries. Says he: "We mean to set things right with or without violence." William Gibson, a sociologist at Southern Methodist University, believes the "element of warrior fantasy" is strong among hate groups. Reason: they feel so abandoned by a changing America that they want to take matters into their own hands...
...some hospitals in the past year. In turn, manufacturers have difficulty meeting their contracts and are scrambling to increase output. Says John Strong, president of Health Care Materials Corp.: "Hospitals are within two to three days of not being able to do certain procedures." Industry sources say an element of hysteria has led some hospital employees who have no direct patient contact, like maintenance workers, to begin wearing gloves on the job. Other health-care workers are "double gloving" and in some cases wearing three layers of latex...
...backpedaling on this thorny topic. In a report to Congress on arms-control negotiations last March, the President cited compliance with deals in the past as an "essential prerequisite" for future agreements. Yet in a similar report this month, that prerequisite had been watered down to become "an essential element of my arms-control policy." Although such an amendment would not require that the treaty be renegotiated, it would make it difficult for Reagan to put the pact into effect: the Administration went on record a week before the summit with a list of allegations about how Moscow has violated...