Word: four-way
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...little unfinished business to attend to. Back in the previous year, December 19, to be exact, while the rest of us were busy packing for home or else long since departed, the women's hoop squad got no rest as they headed down to Princeton, N.J. for a four-way invitational tournament...
...might have been the sound of a four-way tie for third place. After the great start, the upsets of Army and Brown, and the comeback over Penn, Harvard's final resting place does not look especially noteworthy. But in all the furor about the potential championship--the "if Yale loses and Brown and Dartmouth tie and we win our last two" speculation endemic in the Houses this fall--it's easy to lose sight of the distance this Harvard football team travelled...
After The Game, Crimson captain Chuck Durst limped slowly to the trainer's room, injured left leg bandaged heavily. The awkward silence in Dillon Field House said it all--there was nothing to say, Harvard had fallen to Yale, 14-0, to finish in a four-way tie for third-place in the Ivy League...
...Harvard (7-2, 4-2 in the Ivy League) wins, then it ties Yale for the championship. A Dartmouth (4-2) victory over Princeton (3-3) and a Cornell (4-2) victory over Penn (1-5) combined with a Harvard victory would mean a four-way tie for the title. If Yale (7-2, 5-1 Ivy) wins or ties, it wins the championship outright...
...Frankly," admitted a stunned Premier Takeo Fukuda, "I was astounded." "It was a surprise to me, too," aid Masayoshi Ohira, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). What startled them and their countrymen last week was the result of a four-way race for Fukuda's job as the leader of the L.D.P. and, therefore, of Japan's government. Though the experts had forecast a dull election in which the urbane Fukuda, 73, would easily win a second term, he was thoroughly whipped by Ohira, 68, a deliberate, unassuming technocrat known in Japanese politics...