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...ourselves the embarrassment of being one of the few dozen students to be outnumbered by our Cornell counterparts come next hockey season, or one of the smattering of fans drunkenly berated by our Brown “peers” at an upcoming women’s water polo contest...
Early on, it appeared that the contest would be a low-scoring affair, as neither team was able to find the back of the net for the first seven minutes of play. However, once Brown got on the board, the proverbial floodgates were opened...
Junior Michele McAteer, still coping with injuries to her pitching arm and elbow, got the starting nod for Harvard and went three strong innings, allowing three hits and one run before departing with the contest tied...
...announcement of the winning site will be the climax of a contest that bore a passing similarity to the 1849 gold rush. More than 20 Governors made pilgrimages to Detroit to woo GM, offering all sorts of land deals, tax breaks and worker-training grants. Minnesota's Rudy Perpich said his package of inducements was worth $1.3 billion to the company. To remind GM's executives of its lures, Missouri erected a billboard in downtown Detroit that read GIVE US A RING. Another sign said CHICAGO WANTS YOU. Celebrities were enlisted as well. Boxer Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini touted Youngstown...
...younger viewers (under eight, perhaps) but nods to an older crowd with guest appearances by such relics of the Top 40 as Jan and Dean and Paul Revere and the Raiders. The show makes another contribution to the nostalgia vogue: its mindless fun-on-the-beach antics (a contest to choose "most beautiful back") could set summer TV back 20 years...