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...defeat to Sunhil Desai, brother of Harvard racquetwoman Vanya Desai, during regular season matches. His only other defeat was to reigning two-year United States Squash and Raquet Association champion, Hector Barrigan of Mexico. Their five-game, two-and-a-half hour match was unofficially recorded as the longest match in U.S.S.R.A. history...
Although the expenditure passed unanimously it sparked the longest debate of the evening. Councillor William H. Walsh asked Healy and Cambridge Hospital Administrator John O'Brien how many people use the present Riverside clinic. Walsh also questioned the wisdom of spending money on the hospital improvements when the city faces drastic budget tightening...
...longest stories define a society "where ladies knew the names of other ladies' gardeners and maids and lapdogs," where people prize refinement and "whitish houses like Museums of Comfort." Red necks in these pages are likely to be the result of menopausal hot flashes rather than of exposure...
...becoming the first undefeated Ivy League champion since their 1975-76 version ripped through the league. Princeton, which moved up to number 21 in this week's Associated Press college basketball top 25, has the third-best overall record (20-2) of those teams ranked, and the second-longest winning streak (12) in the nation, second only to the number-one ranked UNLV Runnin' Rebels...
...significant as the wording. The offer, broadcast by Baghdad Radio last Friday, came just as allied correspondents in the Saudi desert were making book on how soon the long-awaited U.S.-led ground offensive would begin. Most were guessing a day or two; a week was about the longest wait anyone expected. The journalists were reading signs of an imminent attack that must have been just as obvious to Saddam's generals. Among them: American bombing was moving closer and closer to the Iraqi front lines; the allies were using new weapons, including fuel-air bombs, to blast paths through...