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...terms of scoring, the Cornell match was a travesty. On the few baskets Cornell did manage to sink, Cornell was "wicked lucky," recalls forward Marget Long, adding that the Big Red would "chuck the ball wildly at the hoop," and it would somehow go in. The hoopsters had little hindrance in their shooting, and most everyone who played came away with eight or ten points. Frenessa Hall led the pack with...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Hoopsters Chew Big Red | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...weekend's roadtrip to Princeton. It seems the resourceful hoopsters held a party in one of the hotel rooms, keeping Coach Kleinfelder preoccupied while Horne snuck back and smeared her doorhandles, toilet seat, and phone with Vaseline, switched her luggage, stashed her squash racket and other belongings under the sink, telephoned the desk and switched the morning wakeup call to 6 a.m., and then waltzed back nonchalantly to the party...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: PAT HORNE | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

America must keep every promise it made in obtaining the release of the hostages. Duress or not, these obligations represent our country's honor. Shall we sink to Iranian depths and break this word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homecoming: Letters: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Penn captain Ken Hall took care of the apparent shift in momentum, though, by taking the inbound pass and driving the length of the floor to sink a down-the-middle lay-up at buzzer. "That hurt," Mannix said wistfully after the game. "If he hadn't hit that and we had hit the first half of the second half we would have been down...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Cagers Fall at Penn, 73-63, For First Ivy Defeat of Year | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...brokerage house began heavily editing Granville's highly opinionated copy, he quit and started his own investment service. He emerged from the bear market of the early 1970s with a dubious record. During those years, he kept urging subscribers to buy stocks even though the market continued to sink. Granville conveniently likes to forget that period and says that he has called every major market swing for the past 6½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Granville Stuns the Market | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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