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Harvard left the gym with its 61st straight victory; the Engineers left with nightmares...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen Capture 61st Straight | 12/9/1987 | See Source »

...squad's 61st straight victory puts it in the record book ahead of University of San Franciso basketball teams, which captured 60's. The longest winning streak ever is 88, held by the 1971-'74 UCLA basketball teams...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen Capture 61st Straight | 12/9/1987 | See Source »

Fidel Castro celebrated his 61st birthday last week, but the public greetings extended by a former comrade-in-arms could not have been welcome. In two programs beamed repeatedly to Cuba on U.S.-sponsored Radio Marti, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, 40, a soft-spoken and much decorated major in the Cuban intelligence service, told of his defection to the U.S. out of disgust and frustration with the Castro regime. He minced no words in accusing the Cuban leadership of corruption, decadence and abuse of power, and promised to blow the cover off Cuban intelligence operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilled Beans: A defector bares Cuban secrets | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

While their heavier counterparts race on the Charles, the lightweights are off to Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., for a crucial contest with the Tigers and Yale in the 61st annual charge for the Goldwaith...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Heavies Aim at Adams; Lights Go For Goldwaith | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

...more passes, completed more, for more yards or touchdowns. Still Tarkenton is regarded vaguely as a loser and alibier. Had the Vikings made good on even one of their chances, would he have been left at the door last week when Roger Staubach and Joe Namath (the league's 61st-ranked passer) stepped into the Hall of Fame? To the victors go the spoils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A San Francisco Tour De Force | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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