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Roll out the red carpet and polish up the crown. In the midst of Saturday's squash holocaust at Hemenway Gym, the Crimson's Mike Desaulniers clearly established himself as the king of college squash by turning his showdown match with vaunted Tiger sophomore Tom Page into a one-sided farce, in one of the great athletic performances of Harvard history...
Thanks to the tardy Turner Construction Company, the new pool will officially be dedicated today at 3:30 as a prelim to what has got to be the top swimming meet on the East Coast this year, the showdown between Harvard and Princeton...
Both sides mobilize for the showdown on the treaties
...Premier Giulio Andreotti, who then headed a center-right coalition made up of his Christian Democrats and the conservative Liberal Party, lost 13 consecutive parliamentary votes before calling it quits. This time Andreotti's 18-month-old government did not so much fall as dissolve. To avoid a showdown vote that would have poisoned the atmosphere and left the parties in a state of political war, he bowed out quietly, imploring his party to exercise "general prudence...
...Roger Staubach are the steady, main-chance men that made Dallas Big D. These two very different teams from two very different Western cities will shoot it out in the most spectacular corral ever built. The teams and the setting are unique. Before Super Bowl XII is over, the showdown could turn into a show stirring the mountains, the prairies and all the watching football lands beyond...