Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitch Reese, playing seventh, blanked Jim Little, and Clark Bain ousted Peter Thayer 3-1 at the eighth seed. The number nine man, Chuck Elliott, emerged victorious from a grueling five-match marathon with Evan Bash...
Larry Flynt converted? I don't believe it. He has just made a slick invasion of the enemy's camp, and once he starts printing and illustrating those purple parts of the Bible, it will make his Hustler magazine seem about as sexy as a seed catalogue...
Sophomore Mike Desaulniers, the nation's top-ranking college player and Harvard's number-one seed for the second year in a row, bettered opponent Mohtadi in three close games, 16-13, 15-12, 15-11. The Crimson's Mark Panarese, playing in the second slot instead of ailing John Havens, lost to Lennard, 1-3. Ned Bacon grabbed the third match from Canadian Guyatt...
DIED. Roswell Garst, 79, Iowa farmer who played host to Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier's 1959 visit to the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Carroll, Iowa. A pioneer in corn growing and cattle-feeding techniques, Garst arranged the first sale of U.S. corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot...
International star Sharif Khan from a family of great Pakistani squashmen, won the tournament last year and is the number one seed this year...