Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this assumes that Harvard will not lose at Yale next week, should it defeat Penn today, but the possibility of this happening is about as real as the possibility that the Crimson cagers will win the Ivy basketball crown this year...
Harvard, which has lost only one of its last ten games, needs the win tonight if it is to stay in contention for the ECAC playoffs (Harvard is 6-4-2) and for the Ivy crown which the Crimson (2-2) won handily last season with a perfect 12-0 record...
...Tigers' bid for another national crown suffered its first jolt in the opening match when Bill Kaplan devastated his opponent, 3-1. Kaplan broke the ice by giving Princeton its first loss of the season but the next contest was even more surprising. Playing in the second spot, freshman John Havens beat the Tiger Captain, Arif Sarfraz, by the score of 3-1. Sarfraz was undefeated in the last two years...
...Prime Minister Indira Gandhi* and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, has been hitting the hustings lately as an articulate and outspoken advocate of his mother's policies. Sanjay's political enemies-and even some of his friends-have begun to refer to him as "the crown prince." Veteran Indian politicians are treating him with the deference due a young man who happens to be the likely heir to a political dynasty. "Even a few minutes' talk with him reveals his political acumen," marveled Devaraj Urs, chief minister of the state of Karnataka, last week...
After exams, the swordsmen will begin their quest for the Ivy League crown in earnest. Marion feels that Princeton, Penn and Harvard have an equal shot at the title. "One lucky break or one bad day will do it," prophesized Marion...