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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been several such changes in strategy--though none quite so dramatic--since 1972, when Harry Parker coached a heavyweight beat with six of nine oarsmen from Harvard to second place in Germany. Every year since, almost all of the nine have reassembled in Cambridge for another shot at rowing glory in the Head of the Charles Regatta...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Battle of (Aging) Titans | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...second-seeded team of Martha Roberts and Debbie Kalish advanced in the doubles, dumping UMass, 6-2, 6-2, and Weslyan, 6-1, 6-2. Abby Meiselman and Kris Mertz moved into the quarterfinal round with easy victories over Fairfield, (6-0, 6-1,) Smith...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Tennis Team Looks for Triple Crown | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...associations in Letters, however, come too thick, and it's a matter of chance which one your brain happens to pick out at any moment. As sheaves of pages pass by, Barth concentrates these associations in several arbitrary subjects: the War of 1812, which somehow prefigures a Second American Revolution; the decline of the profession of letters; the Maryland shore, scene of most of the action; the waning of the Indian tribes; others too numerous to mention. Except for the fleeting pleasure of realizing Barth is up to something, these associations offer the attentive reader nothing but work...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...events that led up to his first decision to commit suicide, and realizes he's reliving it all, and heading in the same direction. Each generation in the exhaustive family history of the Cook/Burlingame clan spends the first half of its life undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its parents' work and the second half undoing its own. Jacob Horner is either performing in or direction (it's unclear) a play called Der Wiedertraum ("the Repeat Dream"), which reenacts his adulterous affair with the wife of a fellow inmate of the Remobilization Clinic. And so it goes...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

MARTHA ROBERTS and DEBBIE KALISH. Harvard's number one doubles team, and winners of last week's Mass State title, is seeded second in the doubles bracket. Kalish and Roberts both possess similar serve-and-volley games and are particularly adept...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Tennis Team Looks for Triple Crown | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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