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Crimson coach Billy Cleary rested Petrovek and started John Aiken in net. Aiken made 33 saves and allowed both Irish goals. Jim Murray, a starting goaltender on last season's Harvard varsity, was put in to mop up in the third period and was tested just twice. It was the first appearance of the season for Murray...
...Dobson, 17-15, tossed a three-hitter with mop-up help from Sparky Lyle. The Indians' only tally came in the first, as John Lowenstein walked, reached third on an error, and scored on a fielder's choice...
...countless bored and depressed women. The speaker, however, is burly, bearded Sheldon Schacter of Carmel Valley, Calif., who gave up a $13,000-a-year job as a psychiatric social worker to become a househusband. Schacter, 29, cares for his son Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very scant, very hardy...
...passion or the classic clash between the radical antiwar movement and the criminal-justice system. By the time three of the original defendants and one of their lawyers were found guilty last week of contempt of court during the first trial, the denouement had dwindled to a legal mop-up operation...
...supremacy, and in the early hours of the second day of fighting, the Egyptian air force did not even take to the air to support ground troops. Israeli planes penetrated deep into Egypt, knocking out missile systems and other defenses. Defense Minister Dayan said that the mop-up might take several days, but he predicted that the curious battle of Yom Kippur was already decided...