Word: face-off
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...last great test as a campaigner. Shaken by a stumbling performance in the first presidential debate two weeks earlier in Louisville, Ronald Reagan had to show millions of Americans watching Sunday night's face-off in Kansas City that he was in command of his office, in control of his facts and not addled by age. Once again, the Gipper was up to the task...
...Dallas, the Morning News (circ. 336,000) and Times Herald (circ. 270,000), both of which were somewhat listless until a few years ago, have spurred each other to make the city one of the best covered in the country. In Detroit, similarly happy results have come from the face-off between the Free Press (circ. 635,000) and News (circ...
...week's results point to a continuation of a close, hot and exciting battle, with the next face-off in Illinois, where 116 delegates will be chosen this week. A heavy defeat there could deal Mondale a serious blow, since the state once seemed ideally suited to display his strengths: backing by unions and the party establishment, in this case the Chicago machine. But the machine is unpopular with down-staters and suburbanites, reinforcing Hart's popularity among those groups, and with blacks, who may vote for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago resident. At week...
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia--The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia rode flawless defenses yesterday into the face-off for the Olympic hockey gold medal, and the United States beat Poland to clinch seventh place...
Late in the third period when Harvard Captain Ken Code clutched his side, threw off his grove, skated to the face-off circle, and felt to the ice, few in the sellout Boston Garden Beanpot crowd seemed concerned with Northeastern's 7-3 lead...