Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colorado, when Harvard's vaunted defense sprang terminal leaks. After an infield error and a sacrifice, an easy fly ball to center-fielder Leon Goetz turned a routine jam into a disaster. Goetz dropped the ball for the inning's second error, then picked it up and threw to relay man Rick LaCivita. Catcher Dan Williams couldn't find the handle on LaCivita's perfect strike to the plate and Northern Colorado had a two-run stake...
...fedayeen's complicated plan for effecting the release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French ambassador to Syria, who would relay it via Paris to Ambassador Herly at Ma'alot. Only then would the hostages be released. The situation, said Major General Shlomo Gazit, Israel's intelligence chief, became "a mission impossible...
...well-honed group tied for fifth with Princeton in a race in which the top three teams all broke the old Heptagonal mark. Running coach Peppy Hunt said that he was "tickled to death" with the relay's performance...
Harvard's mile relay squad shouldn't be overlooked either. The event beleaguered Butler--he had already taken a fourth after two heats of the intermediate hurdles--and tired freshman Steve Brown teamed up with quartermen Joel Peters and captain Nick Leone to hit 3:15 and take fourth in a surprisingly fast mile relay field...
...necessary to win, but few of the competitors could match the Crimson's field strength, and the Harvard runners fared well in a market glutted with recruited schoolboy 440 and 880 champions. "Overall I was really pleased," Hunt said after Leone crossed the finish line to end the mile relay and the meet. "The bovs did a hell...