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...super-confident Harvard soccer team went undefeated by a powerful Tufts squad yesterday--neither did the Crimson prevail, nor was any score reported. The match was placed erroneously on the schedule for this year's season, and is actually not due to be played until...
Last February the Moscow-backed President Agostinho Neto, 54, finally managed to prevail over his Western-backed rivals with the help of $300 million in Soviet-supplied arms and 12,000 Cuban soldiers. Neto, now the hardest-lining of the front-line five, continues to reject a peaceful solution for Rhodesia and harbors 3,000 SWAPO guerrillas across his 800-mile common border with Namibia...
John McAdams, another teaching fellow, said that he has graded students "by the standards which seemed to prevail in the department" but that he is "quite amenable to Mansfield's efforts to toughen...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science and one of the tenured faculty in Chinese Government, said yesterday, "We were for him, but we couldn't prevail against the whole department. The whole thing doesn't reflect on his merits...
Formidable Alliance. Earlier this summer it seemed as if even this formidable alliance might be inadequate. When the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the dam builders' FPC license should prevail over any action by Kleppe, friends of the New River won Senate and House approval of a bill to annul the license. Their effort was frustrated when the House Rules Committee responded to power-company pressure by requiring a two-thirds vote on any license-lifting legislation...