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...fact, three of Harvard's top four players proved something less that suave against the Elis. In the first round, Bill Kaplan (number one) was victimized in three straight games by Yale captain Derrick Niederman, while Peter Havens lost a five-game, second-round struggle at number four...
Brown rebounded from its second-round defeat in 1972 to go all the way to the semi-finals last season. While the Crimson squad was suffering one of its worst seasons in a long while, the Bruins took three overtime contests against UConn, Yale and Hartwick before bowing out to St. Louis...
Women's ace Kerry Melville once asked me, "Aown't yew tayken enoof pictchahs of me, sonny?" at a Slims tourney at Squantum last year. I had been focusing on her for four games in one second-round match, and she was winning. A thin-skinned grouch, Melville has been on the verge of winning major tournaments for years but has never been able to break a final round block against the hierarchy of the game: King and Court...
Because Finance Minister Giscard is identified nearly everywhere as the author of the quintessentially Gaullist policy of economic independence from the U.S. or any other country, he seemed the inevitable second-round beneficiary of almost all of the Chaban vote. Mitterrand, however, was not about to let Gaullists forget that he had something to offer them too. "There exist many Frenchmen who identify themselves with the history of Gaullism, but not with the right of big business," he declared. He reminded Gaullists that Giscard was partly responsible for the general's forced retirement in 1969 when Giscard urged...
...leftists had unity problems of their own. Paradoxically, but not surprisingly, the first-round success of the Communists and Socialists bade fair to spoil their second-round chances...