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Both squads had chances to grab the win--B.U.'s Steve Geraghty shanked a one-on-one wide in the first OT and Ayrault cracked one with almost no angle into the side of the net in the second period--but 110 minutes of play, the frigid wind, and the players' own inconsistent play sealed...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Booters Match BU, 1-1, in Rollercoaster Ride | 10/20/1981 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis team looked shaky at times yesterday against a fired-up squad from Penn State, but the Crimson used clearly superior skills to grab a tough 5-4 win at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Netwomen Top Penn St.; Evans, Schulman Shine | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...jurors and two or more lawyers, who then proceed to pound each of you with the same questions. This can take a half-hour or more for each juror, and then you have to hear it all over and over again. After a day or so, you'll grab at anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, the Jury, Find the . . . | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...four summers, Kendall and an international team of volunteers, meagerly financed by a grab bag of charitable sources, have been laboring like Inca road gangs, repairing broken stonework, rebuilding terrace walls and clearing canal channels choked with debris. Aside from applying a little cement and plastic sheeting to canal beds, they have stuck to traditional Inca stoneworking techniques. So far they have managed to reirrigate only 30 acres. But even this small step forward-or backward-has begun to change some of the lives of the handful of farmers on the slopes around Patallacta. One peasant has requested and secured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Reviving Inca Waterways | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Senior guard Robert Taylor harbors a greater affinity for the IAB than most players on the squad, but his reaction to the postponed opening date (how does November 1982 grab you?) was fairly typical. "There's nothing wrong with the IAB at all. It's just that people don't like climbing four flights of stairs. As a player, the IAB is just fine...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: UTexas Visits the IAB (Hah!) | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

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