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...this weekend. Tonight's semifinal will pit Currier and Lowell in the three-shot contest, and the winner will square off against speedy Lloyd Perlmutter of Mather House in the finals tomorrow. Perlmutter, the Bright Center public address announcer known for his flashy clothes, will lead Mather to the showdown title, it says here...
Yesterday the racquetwomen edged Williams, 4-3, but everyone at the tournament knew that match was only a prelude to The Showdown between the invigorated Crimson and the historically dominant Tigers...
None of the other matches in this showdown for the national title was as mercifully antacid. Almost every contest came down to the fifth game, many of those sudden-death tiebreakers. The Crimson had a point to prove: for the past three seasons, squash primacy had belonged to the heavily recruited and deep Tigers...
...avail. Leaders of the opposition, principally the Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, plotted a parliamentary assault aimed at finishing off the government. To avoid such a showdown, the Begin Cabinet voted Sunday to ask the Knesset to call an early election on July 7, four months ahead of schedule. Begin's government had sounded its finale in the kind of unruly Cabinet session that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier...
That was the result of a showdown last week between two judges who have been waning since November over a desegregation plan for Rapides Parish: Federal Judge Nauman Scott, who devised it, and State Judge Richard Lee, who helped the girls fight a transfer from Buckeye High to racially mixed Jones Street School. In defiance of the integration order, Lee sent state troopers to escort the students to Buckeye and even did the job himself for four days. In a two-hour session in his courtroom, Scott stressed that he would not retreat on the desegregation plan; he said...