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...first time this year scoring ace David Hynes did not pick up a point. He has scored goals in 14 games for a season total of ?9, and with 25 assists he has a point total of 64. Linemate Bob McManama, picking up an unassisted goal against Exeter, now has 55 points...
When it came down to the final card, and Army's surging track team seemed to hold an unbeatable hand. Harvard coach Bill McCurdy found an ace that he didn't know he had, and used it to nip the Cadets, 48-45, for the Crimson's second consecutive Heptagonal title Saturday at Cornell's Barton Hall...
...lopes around the track, Ralph Doubell has the distracted look of a man talking to himself. And so he is. To ease the loneliness of a distance runner, the Australian ace provides his own moment-to-moment commentary and, when need be, his own cheering section. Late in the 800-meter finals of the 1968 Olympics, for instance, Doubell told Doubell: "You're going to win! You can feel it in your muscles!" Then, as he took the lead coming down the stretch, he shouted to himself: "You've won it! You've won it!" Doubell professes...
...supertankers. "Instead of playing penny-ante stuff with the shoe industry, Maine was playing for high stakes with the oil companies," says John N. Cole, editor of the fiercely conservationist Maine Times. "And since the oil men had nowhere else to go, Maine held the ace...
They're called the South African Open Championships. In fact, they are shut tight to a black man, as U.S. Tennis Ace Arthur Ashe discovered when he applied for a visa and a chance to vie for the title. The government allowed, however, that Ashe would be permitted to enter the country as a member of a U.S. Davis Cup team. Maybe. By blackballing Ashe, South Africa could be disqualified for Davis Cup competition...