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...1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian's teammates dressed him in his pads. He stands...
...increases. They were rebuffed so completely that they are not about to challenge the boss's most cherished beliefs so directly again. A favorite saying around the White House is that one staff member or another "broke his pick" confronting Reagan with such unwelcome advice. One prominent pick breaker was Baker. At one point he so nettled Reagan by pressing for excise taxes and defense cuts that the President took off his glasses, glared at his aide and asked, "If that's what you believe, then what in the hell are you doing here?" Says one colleague: "Baker has thrown...
...Breaker President Robert Caporale said yesterday in an interview that the team would have guaranteed the University $25,000 per home game and a share of all concession proceeds in exchange for use of the Stadium. With the football club assuming the costs of ticket-takers, security guards and other temporary employees, Harvard stood to gain approximately $2.5 million over the nine-game season...
...organizers of the contest had picked the eight Senate races the New York Times had chosen as most hotly contested. There was Moffet and Weicker in Connecticut, Laudenberg and Fenwick in New Jersey, Wilson and Hatch in Utah. And for the clincher, a tie breaker: "Pick the number of the net gain of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives." The winner of all of this, of course, was to win the pot, as well as all the money collected from entrants...
...singles matches. Harvard's top-seeded Elizabeth Evans snagged a second-set tie-breaker to defeat the Indians' Cherie Dow, 6-2, 7-6, in straight sets. And, in another second-set squeaker. Harvard freshman Roberts Hing held off a strong rally to down Chrissie Wells...