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...event. The words diretas já (direct elections now) became inescapable, splashed across posters, walls, buttons, T shirts and bumper stickers. Climbers scaled one of the peaks that surround the city and mounted a 35-ft.-high cloth banner bearing the slogan. At Maracanã stadium, the huge electronic Scoreboard flashed the words repeatedly during soccer matches. The climax came last week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times...
Certainly, Harvard's ability to keep the explosive Minutemen off the scoreboard for the entire second half proved the difference. With Greeley and Bambi Taylor double teaming UMass superstar Pam Moryl, the Minutemen failed to pose a challenge to the inspired Crimson, who used more soul than talent to clinch the victory...
Smit answered quickly, though. With the visiting Cantabrigian nine in the field, the hosts replied with two tallies of their own in the bottom of the first. After leadoff batter Ellen O'Shea walked, Brenda Bridgharh doubled, and Jane Cucuci singled both Smith softballers onto the scoreboard. After giving up two runs, two hits and a walk before recording an out, pitcher Gerri Rubin blanked the next three batters, stranding Cucuci on third...
...never more than a two-goal difference yesterday at the Rutgers Sports Complex, and victory wasn't sure until just 1:28 remained on the scoreboard. That's when junior Claire Farley sent her second goal of the day past Scarlet Knight netminder Maria Grant to give the Crimson...
...next two innings were a pitcher's duel, with Crimson hurler Gerri Rubin forcing a one-two-three inning on infield grounders and Robinson continuing to produce goose eggs under Harvard's name on the scoreboard...