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Despite his common Adidas tennis sneakers and maroon warm-ups: Mayotte stands out from the Harvard team members. At a lanky 6-ft., 4-in, he is unmistakably tennis. A self-admitted serve and vollyer, his long arms and legs promise power and agility--two facets of his ever-improving game...
...fans if was the reward for suffering through the agonizing near misses of recent years, and theirs was the only section of the Garden which hadn't cleared out by the final siren. As a maroon and gold flag was waved in the balcony seats. Eagle senior Billy Switaj who stopped 31 Northeastern shots in the game, accepted his Eberly Trophy as the tourney's best goalie and freshman winger Bob Sweeney, who scored two goals last night and set up the typing and winning goals last week against Harvard was named...
...best ever to wear the Maroon and Gold in the Beanpot, yet he'll be remembered for the games he lost in the B.C. nets. He suffered a 5-4 overtime loss at the hands of Northeastern in the finals his freshman year, a stunning 2-0 Harvard upset in 1981 and B.U.'s 3-1 victory last year...
...public was indeed enthralled by the emotional encounter between the 1,800 Falkland Islanders and the woman they regard as a heroine and savior. Most of the country followed her progress on television as the Prime Minister jounced along rutted roads in Civil Commissioner Sir Rex Hunt's maroon London taxi; accepted pink roses and wild cheers from the islanders; stood, head bowed, at the simple white cross marking the grave of Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel H. Jones, whose courage won him the Victoria Cross; and placed flowers by the 14 graves overlooking San Carlos Bay, where British troops first...
...Soviet leader moved slowly to his place beneath a monumental bust of Lenin, turning to acknowledge Communist leaders who had come from as far as Cuba and Viet Nam to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union. Dressed in a smartly tailored blue suit and maroon tie, Andropov looked well-rested and healthier than he had five weeks earlier at the funeral of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev. But his sober demeanor suggested that he had reserved an important message for his first major televised speech to the nation...