Word: 99th
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...gaping holes which had greeted opponents' running backs in the last four games were mere memories, and a big part of that was Restic's strategy changes. The former Hamilton Tiger Cat coach, who won his 99th career game Saturday, started seniors Richard Puccio (at defensive tackle) and Craig Peck (at linebacker) in place of juniors John Sparks and David Weiss respectively...
...team in the Ivy League it has not beaten in the last two years. In fact, Harvard has not been victorious against the Big Red (2-1, 0-0) in four years--a fact Harvard Coach Joe Restic would like to change and, in the process, pick up his 99th career victory...
...What's the hurry?" Irving Berlin said on his 99th birthday when told of plans to celebrate his centennial. Last week, at the only gala he sanctioned for his 100th, the reclusive songwriter stayed home. Smart move. Taped for broadcast on CBS on May 27, the show may sound better on television than it did live in Carnegie Hall. But it did have its high points: Broadway and TV Star Nell Carter hip-hopping through Alexander's Ragtime Band, Michael Feinstein singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification...
...Neill ended a half-century of public service when the 99th Congress ended in January. Born on December 9, 1912, the ambitious Townie grew up in the midst of the Depression and received his undergraduate degree in 1936 from Boston College...
Next week all that could change for millions of immigrants. May 5 marks the inauguration of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, one of the most important and wide-ranging pieces of social legislation in decades. Passed last fall in the final days of the 99th Congress, the law provides the opportunity for aliens who have lived and worked in the U.S. since 1981 to apply for status as permanent residents. In theory it will make it possible for as many as half of the nation's estimated 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants to emerge from...