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BUFFALO, N.Y.--When it was obvious that Boston goalie Pete Peeters would lose his first start in 32 games and his bid to tie a National Hockey League record, the Bruins left the bench and congratulated...
...tell Congress that "we have reached the bone and that any further cuts would do severe damage to our national security." Republican leaders were forced to come up with their own suggestions. Warner proposed reducing the size of the armed forces by up to 7%. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico argued that military spending could be cut by 5%, bringing it down to the growth rate put forward by Reagan two years ago. Slade Gorton of Washington suggested freezing defense spending at the fiscal 1983 level, $209 billion...
Usually the Super Bowl has small chance to live up to a season's expectations, but there was precious little season this year, and relatively few expectations. National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle even called off his traditional gala the Friday before, an intimate gathering with a turnstile, because celebrating this year would be unseemly. Except for one city, Super Bowl XVII would always recall the time when the players walked out for 57 days, and some of the fans stayed away longer...
While most athletes specialize in one or two events, Harvard's Pete Rittenburg has chosen a different approach. The successful senior spreads his talents over several events...
Versatility seems to run in the Rittenburg family. Pete's father Bob Rittenburg ran for the Harvard track team from 1951-1955, and in the Yale meet of his senior year, the elder Rittenburg scored 26 points by nabbing four first places and two seconds. He also won the Bingham award for the class of '55 and gained election to the Harvard Varsity Hall of Fame two years...