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...bursts into view with her grisly trophy, Papas ignites the stage with Greek fire. She moves from dementia to horrified sanity to rending grief with 'hypnotic intensity. Let who will divide her best moments from her finest. Papas is priestess of another god-Euripides. -By T. E. Kalem
However, Restic marks Nov. 15, 1975 as the system's finest day, when, en route to its one and only undisputed Ivy League championship, Harvard defeated Brown, 45-26 Quarterback Jim Kubacki completed 15 out of 18 passes for 289 yds., two yds. short of Jim Stoeckel' snow-broken single-game passing record. The team had everything--a great quarterback, a flashy wide receiver-Jim Curry-and a superb interior lineman, Danny Jiggets, now with the Chicago Bears. But for all the fine performances, it was the quarterback's day and Restic's selection of it as the Multiflex...
...stellar play of the team's Yardlings, Maria Pe and Erica Schulman, provided the day's finest examples of how to dominate the game. Playing in the second flight tournament, Pe's metronomic consistency shut out any possible challenge from her opponents as she yielded only four games in three matches...
...embodies the traditional American values: dedication, hard work, honesty and, above all, success. To the frustrated fans of the legions of teams he has defeated, he is a relentlessly slippery recruiter, a ruthless win-at-all-costs tyrant. To some, he is the demigod of the autumn religion, the finest coach of a uniquely American game. To others, he is the proselytizer of a brutal sport, a symbol of a national fixation on violence...
When Vice President Mondale began his Thursday speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the cliched, "I am honored to speak at one of the finest centers of learning not only in the United States, but throughout the world," many thought what was billed as a "major policy speech" on education might prove to be just another campaign appeal...