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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Initially he didn't miss many shots." Sobel said afterwards. "Then I started taking net away from him, and that messed up his game." Extremely cool temperatures affected Grossman's game, and after singles play the teams moved indoors for doubles...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Sands and Scott Doubles Pair Sparkles As Crimson Dominates Quakers, 7-2 | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...consolation for the spikers is that Princeton, Harvard's opponent in the semifinal game, will miss its 6'8" middle blocker, a nemesis of Ross' in past years...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Spikers Lose Ross to Illness, Take on Princeton in NCAAs | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...hope so." One drawback is never being allowed to be alone on a golf course. In Ireland once, he called for a dew sweeper's teetime at Ballybunion Golf Club and asked the pro to keep it quiet. When Watson arrived, 3,000 Irishmen were waiting. "I just miss the beauty of an empty golf course," says Watson, who can rhapsodize about the fragrance of Augusta when the sun goes down, or the sound at Cypress Point when the wind comes up. "I hear people wishing golfers would be more flamboyant, but I don't intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Solitude and a Solitary Master | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...spikers played again without the services of senior Mark Chang, who is suffering from tendinitis in both knees and may miss the NCAA Regionals next weekend at Harvard...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Men's Volleyball | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

With that dizzying record of stop-go inconsistency, Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne made it even less likely that the citizens of Chicago will miss her erratic leadership. Defeated in the Democratic primary on Feb. 22 by Congressman Harold Washington, the only black ever to win a major party's mayoral nomination in Chicago, Byrne had offered herself as a write-in candidate in the April 12 general election, obviously hoping to attract the votes of white Democrats. Astonishingly, she apparently did not see that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constancy*** | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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