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Martha Roberts, Harvard's top seed, did put some kinks into the Green rampage. Roberts' effective use of the lob and her steady volleying fell just a tiebreaker short of capturing the second set in her match with the leader of the Dartmouth pack, Thayer Wendell...
...crowd hushed, Pierpont served and responded to two rifled forehands down the line with successive reflex volleys. The second, a backhand lunge, forced Kreiger to put up a lob that fell just inches over the baseline. Pierpont carried the set to win the match...
Harvard swept the doubles competition as the second and third teams turned in surprisingly strong performances. The combo of Roberts and Roberts, ranked number one in Massachusetts, utilized the lob to edge Lynch and Fullam...
Penn's height advantage began to show at the start of the second half, as the Quakers pulled away on to an 11-point lead on lob passes over the Crimson defense. Harvard again battled back, closing within four points with a minute left, in spite of the increasingly tenacious Penn defense. Bob Hooft did the damage for the Crimson, driving the baseline and challenging the Quaker front court...
...democracy begins (or ends) at the barrel of a gun. During the recent mini war in southern Lebanon (TIME, Oct. 3), for example, Arafat's Fatah troops accepted a cease-fire designed to halt fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese Christians. The P.F.L.P. refused and continued to lob shells toward Israel. Arafat solved the problem: he ordered his men to arrest 14 P.F.L.P officers until Habash agreed to the truce...