Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tournament rules allowed each school to bring two singles players and two doubles teams. Radcliffe brought only one singles player. Ingrid Sarapuu, who by the luck of the draw played Princeton's number four seed. Julic Kirkham, in the opening round. Sarapuu lost the first set 6-0 to Kirkham before coming back to take the first gwo games of the second set. Sarapuu then lost six straight games to lose the set, 6-2. The other Radcliffe doubles team made up of Maud Wood and Ann Koufman lost in the quarterfinals of the doubles competition...
Dartmouth ace Jim Beattie and Harvard's Milt Holt locked horns in the opener, each limiting the opposition to five hits. But the Big Green took advantage of those hits to defeat the hard-luck Holt. 2-0 In the nightcap, however Mark Linehan showed them both up as he tossed a one-hitter to dump Dartmouth...
...really irritating to lose it this way," light coach John Higginson said afterwards. "It was more bad luck than anything else. It's a lot better to have lost this way than to have had them best us cleanly...
During 15 years of harsh and eccentric rule, President Ngarta Tombalbaye of Chad survived at least seven major assassination attempts. Last week his luck ran out. In a surprise sunrise attack, uniformed soldiers and police, led by General Mbailai Odingar, acting commander of Chad's 4,000-man army, stormed the white-walled presidential palace in Ndjamena, capital of this Central African nation. Tombalbaye's death was announced over national radio, and General Odingar claimed that the armed forces had "exercised their responsibilities before God and the nation." Almost immediately, thousands of brightly swathed men and women poured...
...Broadway houses, it was for decades a powerful and increasingly neglectful influence. In 1972, Broadway's blackest year, Shubert was hit hard. It even seemed likely that many Broadway houses would be replaced by office buildings but for the kind of chance known as "actor's luck"; the theater slump had coincided with the office-building slump. Since then, the organization has been among the leaders in trying to revitalize theater, pouring more than $2 million seed money into nonprofit companies and urging greater cooperation between all kinds of theater...