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Blessed with a talented troika of tight ends, Restic has given each one an expanded role in the offense. Chuck Marshall has snared several big receptions, Bill McGlone brought the Stadium to its collective feet with a pair of dazzling catches against William & Mary, and Linus O'Donnell (after he got over the mumps) has developed into a superb blocker...
Once there were three. After Nikita Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, the mantle of Soviet leadership fell to a power-sharing troika: Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief, Nikolai Podgorny as President, and Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister. Slowly and then surely, Brezhnev emerged as the dominant figure. In 1977, Podgorny was shunted aside and Brezhnev added the presidency to his other powerful post, relegating Kosygin to a much diminished role. Last week the troika became...
...duration instead of having it passed from one to another at various stages. Some programs, like Chicago's, act more quickly because the judges' case loads are lighter. Also important is their refusal to abide delays. Judge Thomas Fitzgerald, the third member of the Rock's troika, says he tries to limit continuances to 30 days, while judges elsewhere often allow 45 or 50 days...
Infused with a sense of enthusiasm stemming from what team members see as an ever-improving squad, the women's tennis team returns to Cambridge this fall with sights set on a troika of tourneys...
Infused with a sense of enthusiasm stemming from what team members see as an ever-improving squad, the women's tennis team returns to Cambridge this fall with sights set on a troika of tourneys...