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...clock every weekday afternoon, the tractors begin returning to the Cacebres Cooperative near the Portuguese town of Alcácer do Sal. Behind them, through the gates decorated with the hammer and sickle, come truckloads of workers returning from the fields. Many of them are women, attired, as they have been for centuries, in full black dresses over thick trousers, their hair covered by black kerchiefs knotted under black felt hats. "This cooperative has 10,000 acres, and it all used to belong to two men who only hired a few workers when they needed them," says Francisco Antonio Pombinho...
...other hand, Sal D'agostino, who was Second Team All-Ivy last year at 190 lbs., has dropped a weight this season and become an absolute terror. Before the Wildcat battle, he was 4-0 with three pins. The heavyweight grappler, co-captain Kip Smith, had already racked up 18 career victories...
Harvard got off to a quick start in that first contest, winning the first four bouts, one a pin by Milt Yasunaga (126 lbs.). The next four bouts were split before Sal D'agostino (177 lbs.) got his second pin in two bouts this season to clinch the Harvard triumph...
...Only once before had she impressed me so: in Advanced Intermediate French she had hypnotized tous with a stunning ninety-minute discourse (du langue propre) on the preparation of Escargots avec les Fraises Flambaux which concluded with a blast the likes of which no one had seen since the Sal DiConcio family firebombed the Esso Refinery Plant in Secaucus...
Harvard's Sal D'agostino (177 lbs.), Second Team All-Ivy last year at a heavier weight, turned his foe over at the edge of the mat and forced the advantage home for the pin. The Crimson had its last lead of the match...