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Although Harvard won the 15-man match, it is the nine-man match that counts in the Eastern League standings. The defeat not only drops Harvard's record to 3-1, but it virtually eliminates any shot at the league title or a trip to the NCAA...
Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the now defunct advisory committee that formed the institute two years ago, is the chairman of the nine-man fundraising committee...
...Watch the squash team derail Yale and finish its dual-meet season at 8-1. Watch the scoreboard and hope that Penn somehow beats Princeton so the Crimson can still capture at least a share of the nine-man national championship. Don't hold your breath, though. Penn isn't going to beat Princeton...
Next door to the White House, in the stately old Executive Office Building, a nine-man ad hoc team held its first meeting last week. In Washington, task forces and special committees bloom and die like cherryblossoms -and often make about as much impact on policy-but this group is different. Its boss is James Schlesinger, 48, he of the omnivorous intellect and encyclopedic résumé, the man chosen by Jimmy Carter to take charge of the nation's energy problems. The group's goal: to produce a 50-page document outlining, as the President...
...hours Humphrey sat in his shirtsleeves and listened to the nine-man gathering tell him that they judged the Democratic race to be over-unless he decided to enter New Jersey. The low-profile candidacy he had planned would do no good. Joe Crangle, the upstate New York Democratic leader, read off a delegate count projecting that Carter would have 1,023 delegates by the end of the primaries if Humphrey made no move. The group was confident that Humphrey could defeat Carter in New Jersey, and Humphrey told them he felt the same...