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Harvard managed to defeat these teams, as everybody else in the United States did, but Tom Sanders & Co. have one leg up on the rest of the nation. Harvard also managed to lose to five of the teams mentioned on separate occasions, negating whatever prowess might be attributed to the victories...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: The Long Winter: Uneasiness and 18 Losses | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...friend, Pavlovich realized the firm's interviewers were suspicious--his claim to being a college placekicker didn't sit well with one of the interviewers who knew his football. Once again, it was the law firm, not the colleges, which did him in; once more boasts of athletic prowess contributed to his downfall...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Spring training may not have started yet, but that hasn't stopped the players from working out. Yesterday, at Brookline High School, Luis Tiant displayed his pitching prowess, his physique, and his basketball and swimming abilities for an assortment of people, including his father, Luis Sr., and his long-time friend, Felix Fernandez, a Brookline High teacher...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Marc My Words | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

Havana's African display of military prowess disturbs many Latin American leaders, including some who had only recently argued that the danger of subversion from Havana was over. Venezuela, for example, led a fight within the Organization of American States to drop hemispheric sanctions against Havana. Now President Carlos Andrés Péres frets over reports of several hundred Cuban soldiers in nearby Guyana, a socialist state with which Venezuela for many years had a border dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro's Globetrotting Gurkhas | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Powered by the blade brandishing prowess of freshman foiler Celine Larkin, the Cliffe trio showed little Cupid-inspired affection towards their Corsair counterparts. Both Larkin and Captain Sarah Kimball sliced their way to 3-0 sweeps of their opponents, with only Leonida Rassenas finishing on the short end of the sword, losing two of her three bouts...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: 'Cliffe Fencers Split Matches | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

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