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...pictures of soccer fields being built at Cienfuegos. "Those soccer fields could mean war, Bob," an excited Kissinger is supposed to have said. Understandably, Haldeman asked, "Why?" The reply: "Cubans play baseball. Russians play soccer." The meaning, according to Haldeman, was that eight years after the dangerous Kennedy-Khrushchev showdown over Soviet missiles in Cuba, the Russians were doing it again...
...Harvard's aquamen had different plans, as they went on to win 11 of the next 12 events in a meet which turned out to be little more than a tune-up for this week's showdown with Princeton at the Eastern Championships...
...more sugar: the industry is labor-intensive and world prices were high, but they have since fallen. Recently the government warned that 20,000 more workers will be idled and the economy will tumble into worse shape when the sugar harvest is completed in April. Not coincidentally, the ratification showdown on Capitol Hill should occur near then...
...tournament that had been postponed, shortened to two days and cut back to six teams (Cornell and Barnard could not make the trip) followed the seedings carefully, with the top two seeds gaining today's 2 p.m. championship showdown...
...numbered seeds took to the courts first and the overflowing crowd, many who had been there for over an hour, settled down to watch the long awaited showdown between the two best college racquetmen in the country, the Crimson's Mike Desaulniers and Tom Page of Princeton...