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...Crimson's top three seeds David Boyum. Kenion Jerniga and Desaulmers will play singles at the Nationals this weekend, leaving the next five ranking players to go for the team title Harvard will receive its biggest challenge from Princeton, which plans to enter only one of its top seeds--Robb Hill--in singles competition...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Racquetmen Shake Snow, Quake Penn in Philly, 10-0 | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...Altay) ("There was no place she'd been by the age of 15") prostitutes herself to get to Buenos Aires. ("There has never been a lover...who hasn't an eye on...tricks he can try on his partner.") After becoming a radio star, Eva meets Colonel Juan Peron (Robb Alton). ("I've heard so much about you.") With her advice and encouragement, he leads a workers' uprising ("The chains of the masses untied") that vaults him to the Argentinian presidency ("Peron! Peron!") Eva wins the love of her descamlsados (shirtless ones) and initiates a not solely charitable foundation ("Thank...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Glamor Girl | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

...Butzner of the U.S. court of appeals in Richmond called a halt, saying that the years on death row might have robbed Coppola of the capacity to decide the question and noting that a constitutional review of Virginia's death penalty was pending in another case. Governor Charles Robb ordered an immediate appeal. Two state attorneys flew to Washington, D.C., and rushed to the Supreme Court, where they found the main door locked. They finally got in a side door and submitted their request for a reversal at 7:25 p.m. At 10:25 the court ruled, apparently without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Deadline Death | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

Into this lion's den came the Christian, the Rev. Billy Graham, newly back from the Soviet Union and impressed by the religious freedom there. A fellow evangelical, the Rev. Edmund Robb, was also on the program, assuring Graham, "I love you, I believe in you" but insisting that Graham had been "very naive." Will and Donaldson felt no need to establish whether or not they love Billy Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Defaming with Questions | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Virginia's bitter campaign, Reagan was scarcely an issue. Winner Robb, a conservative by principle and a pragmatist by practice, simply refused to attack him. Said Robb: "It's clear that President Reagan is very popular." At least as much an issue was another President, almost 13 years out of office. The late Lyndon B. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was also the father of Robb's wife Lynda Bird. Her mother, Lady Bird, gave $25,410 to the campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off-Year Races: No Referendum | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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