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Lundy will remain in the tournament, playing his first-round single match against Southern Methodist's Haroon Ismaiol today...
Battling the effects of an 11-day examperiod layoff, Harvard's Eastern League champion baseball team will compete in the first-round of the NCAA Eastern Regional playoffs at noon Wednesday in Holyoke, Mass...
...team was born in a spell of rare adversity. When the rough-'em-up Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, Montreal General Manager Sam Pollock and Coach Scotty Bowman rebuilt their club with canny trades for draft choices (the Canadiens had five first-round picks one year, leaving the other 17 teams to divvy up the rest). The results added size to the already considerable Montreal speed on ice. The current team can outskate anyone in the league and muscle the boards with the best of the backcheckers. Says Flyers' Coach Fred Shero...
Seeded one after a 5-0 whitewash over MIT March 25, the Crimson marched through the pairings with a first-round bye, a second-round shutout of Swarth-more, a razor-thin victory over tough Rutgers in the semifinals, and a relatively easy win over Princeton in the championship finals...
...message was clear: France's uneasy electorate, fed up with squabbling on the left, uncertain of the dimensions of Communist intentions, played safe. "I expected as much," said Giscard coolly, as he watched first-round returns from the presidential Chateau de Rambouillet, 34 miles from Paris, "I didn't speak Saturday night for nothing." He was referring to a persuasive election-eve address on national television. A victory for the deeply divided leftist parties could not ensure a stable government in France, he warned. Moreover, "though the French economy has improved, it is still very fragile. The shock...