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...Harvard beat Yale in the final game of the 1976-77 season, but failed to reach the ECAC playoffs, lacking the help of any one of three other teams. The "real fans" remember Gene Purdy's overtime wraparound goal to win last year's first-round Beanpot match against Northeastern as well as they recall Jackie Hughes limping off the ice at Boston College with a broken heel, starting a downswing from which Harvard never recovered. What's crucial is that the "real fans" still supported the team after defeats or victories...
...latest technology, help spread the cost of developing new planes and, not least, to counter nationalistic objections to government airlines buying "foreign" craft. The diplomacy involved can get both complex and testy, as witness the three-cornered negotiations from which Boeing last week came out a big first-round winner...
...Saturday in Memphis, with Teaperson Mike Flanagan making a last stab at surpassing New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown (at this writing Flanagan trailed the New Yorker by two goals). The New Englanders will open up the playoffs at Schaefer Stadium on Wednesday, against a first-round patsy to be named later...
None of these ponderous matters bothered the Argentines in the least. In the big three-tiered River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, at the outset of a first-round game between Argentina and Italy, the Argentine fans filled the floodlit night sky with a spectacular storm of torn-up paper. The shock waves set off by their cheering were perceptible as much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal...
Ismaiol, a native of Pakistan, should provide some strong first-round compeition in the 64-draw event, but Lundy figures...