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...netmen (14-3 overall, 7-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association) did not lose a set all weekend as they swept Army and Cornell, matching in their own way Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters for hte Cincinatti Reds...
Junior Bob Kay and sophomore Jim DePalo were both hitless in three attempts when they led off the eighth inning. The brightened their days with back-to-back homes...
...previous week, when lawmakers handed Reagan a 55-to-45 victory. Led by Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, the Armed Services Committee chairman, who drew hisses and boos when he defied his party's leadership and defended the MX, the House gave Reagan slimmer but significant margins in the back-to-back votes (219 to 213 on Tuesday, 217 to 210 on Thursday) needed to free the MX funds. The outcome was clearly influenced by Democrats' reluctance to be seen as "soft on defense." Said California's Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee: "The only concern...
Mickey Maspons and Scott Vierra smashed back-to-back homers in the third. After Elliott Rivera's round-tripper made it 8-1 in the top of the fifth. Falcon pitcher Roch Rhinchart took out his frustration by beaning Tony Decease on the very next pitch. Maspons stepped to the plate and boomed his second straight homer, a 400 ft., monster, to dead center...
...high price for independence. It emerged intact but badly bruised. Just one humiliating item on the tab: payments of $25 million each to reimburse the two raiders for the expenses they ran up while trying to take over the company. All told, Phillips Chairman William Douce estimated that the back-to-back assaults will cost the company $150 million. The ordeal will leave Phillips smaller and heavily in debt...