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...Harvard's misfortune to run up against New England's number-one team as it tries to hoist itself up in this roller coaster season. Although Harvard played a sound game, moving the ball down the wings, Dartmouth's diamond defense, which has allowed just eight goals in eight games, prevented Harvard from getting close...
...Elis (1-0 league, 2-1 overall) were hoist with their own petard when coach Carm Cozza decided to go for a two-point conversion while trailing, 28-27, with 1:28 to go. The bold stratagem failed when end John Spagnola (nine catches for 153 yards) could not pluck quarterback Pat O'Brien's pass out of a crowd in the endzone...
...training program with a crash course in water survival at the U.S. Air Force Base in Homestead, Fla. Zooming down a 45-ft. tower into warm, stagnant water, sliding under an open parachute, crawling in and out of at least three rafts and getting lifted up by a helicopter hoist, Astronaut Candidate Sally Ride, 27, screamed "No!" to a photographer who begged for "a happy look." Not all the astronautical hopefuls felt such aversion to media coverage. Pouted one of 42 men in the program: "We're mere commoners...
...They were lowering various thing down to the ground on the hoist when the fall occurred," Morse said. "The exa cause of the fall is not yet understood," he added...
...want to catch one of the best free shows in town, gobble down a quick lunch after Ec 10 today and head for the Palmer Dixon courts, where the Harvard men's tennis team will hoist anchor for the '78 season against Navy...