Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, five Glaoui sons gathered at Marrakech to divvy up the sprawling wealth El Glaoui had left. Reportedly there was $17 million in cash lying around the old mud-red palace. There were palaces and houses in virtually every major Moroccan city, stock in lead, cobalt and manganese mines, bank accounts in Paris, London and Geneva. The rumor spread that El Glaoui's sons were maneuvering to block a plan sponsored by Morocco's new government to redistribute the huge land holdings El Glaoui had amassed in southern Morocco...
...match was quite a bit closer than the score would indicate. The Crimson jumped off to a quick 7-3 and 4-2 lead, needing only one match to sew up the meet. But Yale pressed slowly forward and pulled to a 7-5 and 4-3 position with three matches being played, and it was not until Frieberg, playing third doubles, netted a return of Steve Gottlieb's service that the match was decided for Harvard, Gottlieb and Ian Gianetti winning...
Behind 4-2 going into the ninth, the Crimson tallied for three runs to take the lead, only to give the Quakers an unearned run in their half of the ninth and send the game into extra innings...
...game began as a pitching duel, between the Crimson's Bob McGinnis and the Quakers' Gordon Brietman. After three scoreless innings, Hathaway blasted his first home-run, into dead center. Penn took the lead in the bottom of the fourth with two singles and a triple by Ed Rohrbacher, good for two runs...
...Hastings opened the ninth-inning rally with a single. Dave McGarrity, pinch-hitting for Brigham, batted out another single, and then catcher Phil Haughey slammed a three-run homer to give the varsity a 5-4 lead...