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After a clumsy start with two net plays miscalled, freshman Anna Collins smashed a spike down the throats of two unprepared BU setters. Margaret Cheng was all over the court, hitting to Nina Henderson and Collins. BU couldn't get favorable positioning and Harvard took the first two games with ease...
August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...
...swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune's brother and, banzai! 23 men are dead of arrow, sword, spike and gunshot wounds. Honor is all, death is nothing-except the excuse for some spectacular carnage...
...Canaveral. Hitchhiking atop a specially adapted Boeing 747, the new or biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
...through late in the final game to lead a come-from-behind effort Springfield held a 12-10 lead and threatened to tie the match at two games apiece. Tanaka tallied some Harvard points with his serve, and with the game deadlocked at 13, the sophomore rejected a Springfield spike to set up the Harvard victory...