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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Peter Felske had an easy afternoon yesterday at Palmer Dixon. His number one player sat out the match with an injured foot, but that didn't seem to bother a squad that the departing Felske is largely responsible for putting together...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Women's Tennis Fells BC, 7-2, Ends Season With 4-2 Record | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...just wasn't supposed to happen. But that's exactly what did occur when the Harvard men's tennis team marched home from the Palmer Dixon courts last Saturday with an 8-1 win over Yale. The triumph boosted the Crimson's record to 6-0 in the Ivies, 9-5 overall...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Conquer Stunned Yalies, 8-1, Remain Undefeated in Ivy League Play | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Leading the pack of thinclad victories was Adam Dixon, who, in his first outdoor meet of the season, doubled in the 1500-and 800-meter events, setting new GBC records in both. In the latter event Dixon loped out of the pack in the first half lap and never looked back on the way to a 1:49.3 mark...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Thinclads Triumph, Retain GBC Laurels | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Following Dixon's example in the art of rewriting records, Kim Stephens bettered a personal record he notched in the 400-meter hurdles at the Penn Relays on Friday when he blazed a 51.8 in the event. Stephen's mark tied the GBC record, held by B.U.'s Bob Danville, who arrived a half second behind Stephens at the finish to take second place...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Thinclads Triumph, Retain GBC Laurels | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...been part of his attraction, his charm, the nimbus around him. Reagan's luck has a distinctly American shine; his grin proclaims it, the confident expectation of the happy ending. That may be why the nation was drawn to him. Reagan's vehicle on the journey from Dixon, Ill., to Hollywood to the White House ran on persistence and self-knowledge, all right, but it was also propelled by a breezy admixture of the luck that the country was born with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Importance of Being Lucky | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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