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...Crimson linksters unfurled four sub-80 rounds over the Springdale Golf course yesterday, but nonetheless lost of three strokes to host squad Princeton in a spinetingling "Big Three" showdown...
...goes well the lights should carry an undefeated record into that big showdown...
...standstill, the visit took on added meaning. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets want to be around when things move in Rhodesia and South Africa, and they want to be on the side of the key 'frontline' states [Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania] when the showdown comes with South Africa...
With a little coaxing, he tells of the big showdown with Elk Grove High School, which was led by Bill Cartwright, who now plays center on that wunderkind, 29-2, University of San Francisco team. Cartwright was averaging about 50 points a game, give or take a dozen, but on this particular evening he was held to 14 by Kirkland...
...Leyland strike wore on, however, all sides backed away from a showdown. The toolmakers' unofficial strike committee, meeting in a Birmingham pub called Good Companions, decided they would ask the strikers for a vote to end the walkout-provided that Leyland and the A.u.E.W. would agree to two conditions: 1) Leyland must publicly withdraw its threat to fire strikers, 2) the strike leaders must be promised a meeting with Leyland and A.U.E.W. executives to air their gripes. The probable agenda for that meeting: standardizing toolmakers' pay in all Leyland plants and restoring the pay differentials, presumably as part...