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...showdown with the Elis Saturday afternoon, the racquetmen (11-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) earned their sixth straight national nine-man and Ivy League championships with a 6-3 victory here over Yale...
...showdown had all the breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...
...politicians. Last fall several Governors told Dukakis they considered him the most able of the Democratic candidates. When he pressed them for endorsements, they made excuses and backed away. They admired Dukakis, but together they decided he was too hard to get close to. They wondered whether in a showdown, his politician's instincts would be the same as theirs...
...Knight goal was deflating, but by that time, Harvard was already looking ahead to tonight's showdown...
...freestyle afforded the renewal of the local rivalry between Suhs and Boston University's Sybil Smith. Yale's Lisa O'Dell, however, threw a shadow on that showdown by smashing the EWSL record in her victory. O'Dell became the first Eastern swimmer to slide under the formidable 23 second barrier with a time...