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...rest of the period, the icemen controlled the Golden Knights at center ice with stiff forechecking. Just when it looked like the game would go to the third stanza with the score still tied. Mark Fusco took the puck into the Golden Knight zone, skated from right to left, pulling Sylvestri to his side, and then sliding the puck across to Jim Turner, who calmly popped his second straight game-winning goal into...
...real-life Law School characters across the Pound Hall stage. This year it's Professor David Westall, as a dope-dealing buffoon in Bermuda shorts and sombrero and Dean of Students May Upton, who plays herself and saves Camp So-Sue-Me from villainy. They're both as stiff as boards but incite near pandemonium merely by showing that they too can behave foolishly in public...
Harvard record-holder Liane Rozzell--who returned to competition only recently--has a shot at taking high jump honors this afternoon, but Princeton's Sarah Chang will pose a stiff challenge Last weekend the lanky and lean Tiger was the tri-meet's only triple winner, taking the hurdles long jump and high jump...
Asked what it's like to play on these teams, Martin responded. "Well, it's not easy. Like I say, you just keep a stiff upper lip. Every time I go out I give 100 percent and hopefully other people will do the same...
Fylstra, who last week changed the name of his firm to VisiCorp, is at one of the many turning points for an entrepreneur. The company faces stiff competition from VisiCalc's many upstart imitators, among them makers of computer hardware who are selling more and more of their own software. Industry analysts see VisiCorp as a likely candidate for going public during the next two years. With appraisals of the company's worth running about $125 million, a public stock offering would make Fylstra an even wealthier young man. That would free him to strike out in another...