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...cities one night last week, 25,000 rank-and-file Republicans paid $100 each to eat mediocre meals in various halls and hotels while G.O.P. officials, candidates and would-be candidates orated to them over closed-circuit television. Billed as "Go-Day Rallies," the round-robin affairs rallied more than enough money to wipe out the Republican National Committee's $225,000 deficit left over from past campaigns, and gave party workers a chance to watch their standard-bearers at work...
Although no team has ever repeated as champion in the eight-year history of the Ivy's formalized, round-robin activity, Bob Blackman's Hanover Indians garnered nearly three times as many first-place votes as the second-place choice, Harvard...
Brian and Genie live a life crammed with riots ("Hey-you kids coming over to the Square for the fallout protest?"), romance ("So who gets married?") and rationalization ("People call us beatniks. I suppose we do look wild."). For kicks there are marijuana orgies, round-robin poetry readings, coffeehouse-hopping. And lots...
...jammed gearbox. The victory was worth nine points toward Hill's second straight Grand Prix title. > Brazil's basketball team: the world championship, for the second time in a row, with an 85-81 victory over the U.S. in the final game of the seven-nation round-robin tournament. Playing before a wildly partisan crowd of 22,000 in Rio de Janeiro, the undefeated (6-0) Brazilians broke a 39-39 tie at the start of the second half, had no trouble staying in front when six U.S. players fouled out. Yugoslavia upset the Soviet Union...
...Crimson team, defending the title it won last fall, had no trouble in its elimination series on the weekend of November 3, taking six straight races in a round-robin event. While Harvard was soundly trouncing MIT, Coast Guard took seven out of eight races from BU in their elimination series...