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...victory completed a four-title sweep never before accomplished. Harvard has now won the Nationals, the Ivies, the Intercollegiates and the nine-man...
...Masaya, 18 miles southeast of the capital city of Managua, last week was colorfully decorated with flags and posters. A band played revolutionary songs, and the crowds sang along. But there was little cheer in the speech delivered by Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a member of the all-powerful nine-man Sandinista Directorate. "Nicaragua is undergoing a silent, yet bloody invasion," he declared. Ortega charged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Honduran armed forces were supporting more than 2,000 rebels who have been operating along the border with Honduras. Since July 4, he told his audience...
...contrast to Rose, who goes on playing every day in a league that goes on playing nine-man baseball, Yaz has for some time now had to read wistful references to how he used to play ball. Rose has not missed a game in four sea sons in a Phillies uniform and has sat out all of nine games since 1970. Rose's age has been a steady compliment, Yastrzemski's a creeping accusation. A Boston medical writer, after due research and consultations with eminent physicians, put Yaz down this year for .230, if he was lucky...
...winter of 1979, with a dual match against Princeton that annually decides the nine-man national championship deadlocked at four matches apiece, only Robie and opponent Jason Fish remained on Hemenway's courts...
...match seesawed back and forth until Robie prevailed 15-13 in the final game, giving Harvard its first nine-man national championship in three years, and one the Crimson has failed to recaptare since...