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...earlier singles matches, Harvard players succumbed to strong Eli net attack and a partisan crowd. In front of about 100 loud, emotional fans, captain and number one player Reiner dropped a three-set match 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 to Leeds...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Crimson Netmen Squeeze by Elis, 5-4; Doubles Teams Make the Difference | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

Gary Reiner, the no. 1 Crimson racketman, won the singles flight A tournament. In the semi-finals he defeated Princeton's no. 1 and first seed in the tournament, Bill Dutton, before sweeping through UPenn's no. 1 Rick Myer in a three-set match to wrap up his ECAC victory...

Author: By Ann M. Koufman, | Title: Tennis Players Compete in Tourneys | 10/7/1975 | See Source »

Schieding and Berman, teaming together at first doubles, failed to defeat Lindner and senior Gardner Rowbothom, who pulled out a three-set victory. Cornell also dropped the second doubles match but won the third, making the final outcome 7-2, as Abell and Boyd downed Sandy Wilson and Brian Griffin...

Author: By E.p. Eggert, | Title: Netmen Demolish Cornell, 7-2, To Earn Fifth League Victory | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Television, like history, has no precedent for Watergate. There have been other scandals and hearings-notably Estes Kefauver's crime probe of 1951 and the Army-McCarthy confrontation of 1954-but those took place before the epoch of the Living Room War and the three-set family. Yet even back in the '50s, when TV aerials decorated only half the American roofs, Joseph Welch, hero of the McCarthy hearings, warned: "Perhaps we should never televise a hearing until we are as completely adjusted to television as to our newspapers, until such time as no judge, no juror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Watergate on TV: Show Biz and Anguished Ritual | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

Number one man John Thornton led a singles barrage that saw only one decisive Crimson loss. Number two man Jim Levy scored a three-set victory over his opponent while fifth and sixth men, Jeff Wiegand and Bill Cole, posted decisive wins in their matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Batmen, Racquetmen Win; Laxmen Lose | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

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