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...Crimson was knocked off in the first round of the sixteen-team tournament for the second year in a row. Last year, Stanford flew to the national title after taking Harvard, 8-1, in the opening round...
...still under arrest. But black leaders refuse even to negotiate with Botha unless he agrees to legalize the A.N.C. and begin negotiations on a new and democratic constitution. Some Afrikaners, on the other hand, reacted to all talk of reform as if it were the work of the devil. Sixteen Nationalist members of Parliament broke with Botha and formed the new Conservative Party, pledged to total apartheid, now and forever...
After five grim years, McCarthy (but not her brothers) is rescued by her maternal grandparents and taken to live once again in Seattle. Her new home is spacious and comfortable. Her guardians make gentle attempts to keep the headstrong girl in check: "My grandmother had statutory ages for everything, sixteen for boys, fourteen for real, non-ribbed silk stockings, fifteen perhaps for lipstick." These restrictions do not keep Mary from losing her virginity during her sophomore year in high school...
Harvard is not only a quick team but an experienced one too. The Crimson has played in the NCAA Tournament two years in a row, and three of the last five. Sixteen players from this year's club were on the team that made it to the title game last season...
...Sixteen of the 20 players on the Crimson roster were in Providence last year. One, goalie Dickie McEvoy--who took a year off between his sophomore and junior seasons--was even in Grand Forks, N.D., in 1982 for the Crimson's firstever appearance in the NCAA final. Harvard fell to Wisconsin...