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Saturday morning was gloomy on Lake Carnegic. There was a light wind blowing and a misty rain falling--but at least the water was calm. The stage was set for a heavyweight showdown between Radcliffe and Princeton (with Cornell thrown in for additional wake production...
...game of the year for us." Penn's great start is helped by its cream-puff league schedule, which only calls for single games against EIBL standouts Navy. Cornell, and Harvard. Brown will most likely work five innings against Tufts next Monday to get ready for the April 20 showdown. at BOST ON COLLEGE HARVARD AB R H B Kelley 2b 5 0 2 3 Santos Buch dh 3 0 1 0 Bolwes, pr 0 1 0 0 Tilles, dh 1 1 1 0 Stenhouse, rf 5 1 1 0 Bingham, lb 4 0 3 1 Marshall...
...oarswomen anticipate next week's New Jersey showdown with cautious optimism. Last year, in conditions similar to this weekend's headwinds, the Crimson stayed even with the Tigers for 1000 meters before succumbing, as Strong said, to Princeton's superior technique...
Both sides face a showdown. City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, an opponent of rent control, says. "The challenge is to find some way to be fair to landlords and at the same time keep Cambridge a livable city." And, she might have added, to do it before election...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, 71, had another showdown last week. Following days of equal-rights demonstrations by thousands of angry Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said...