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Forced to move on to her finals showdown less than one hour later, Bougas finally ran out of gas. In an exhausted state, she bowed, 6-2, 6-3, to Yale's Kris Di Mambro...
This country's halting and timid approach to the development of nuclear power [Sept. 22] will lead to an international showdown over energy just as certainly as the Munich appeasement led to the second World War. When the energy shortage really hits, the classic basis for armed conflict will be established. Of what value to President Carter will his environmentalist constituency be then? Howard L. Vener Marblehead, Mass...
...this to say. You turn if you want to-the lady's not for turning!" Despite the cheers on both sides of the party, there is anxiety that Thatcher may not be able to turn around the economic woes by election time. Ahead this winter is an unavoidable showdown between the government and public service workers over pay increases that will severely test her policies. If that confrontation goes badly-and some militant union leaders have declared their intention to force an industrial crisis-it will take more than an ideological split in the Labor Party to divert...
Crippled by injuries but invigorated by the scent of an Ivy League championship, the undefeated Harvard football team will travel to New Hampshire today in preparation for tomorrow's showdown with Dartmouth, the pre-season favorite for the title...
...rules, Harvard could only send one singles entry to Amherst. But that proved to be enough as Bougas cruised past three opponents in straight sets to nab the title. Bougas dispatched Cathy Lynch of Boston College, 6-0, 6-0, in the second round to set up a showdown with an old nemesis, B.C.'s Bernadette Diaz, in the finale...