Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's other seven victories, none came against a team with a winning percentage of better than .350. Rochester, defeated by an 86-75 count, ranks at the top of the victim list with an 8-15 (.348) log, followed closely by Boston college and its 9-17 (.346) record...
...Harvard athletes have too much on their study-oriented minds to perform well in their sports. Mel Embree is a case in point, albeit an exceptional one. As for team sports, what of Joe Restic's spectacular success with the football program (none of whose participants can really count on professional careers) and Bill Cleary's annual miracle-working with the Harvard hockey program? In sum, what makes the basketball program different...
...racial war" in southern Africa (the South African government's synonym for revolution) the U.S. government decided to help South Africa set up a nice black government which would be sympathetic to apartheid and foreign investors and hopefully wouldn't let wages rise too much. What they didn't count on was the response of the Angolan people and the solidarity of the socialist countries...
BAYH. "We're running a strong third," Bayh shouted incongruously to his supporters after the vote count. The Indiana Senator clearly lost the most in New Hampshire. Before the election, Udall's press secretary Richard Stout saw Bayh and Udall in a similar bind. Said he: "We're both broke, and we know that one or more of us can't last after Massachusetts without a score...
...form doesn't count when you're pitching. Luis Tiant does not have the best form around, but he does have the mental attitude and the physical attributes to lead the Red Sox to another pennant. And this time they'll beat the Reds...