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Judy Collins, a junior, has been a starter for the Harvard field hockey team since her freshman year. With a 5-1 Ivy league finish and 11-8 record overall, the Crimson's success was due in large part to Collins. She played a key role as midfielder and sudden death player. In overtime games she was the go-to-player and scored four double-over-time goals for Crimson victories...
Wintemute took a particular interest in Saturday-night specials, favorite "starter" guns because of their low price (as little as $25), easy availability and compact size. He found that their chief makers--the companies mentioned in Ring of Fire--did not exist until after 1968, when Congress, reacting to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, banned handgun imports but did not prohibit domestic manufacture. The study showed that the guns were dangerous not just to people who found themselves looking down their barrels but also to their owners. The guns often misfired, were inaccurate and, lacking...
...bottom of the fourth on another misplaced ball in the outfield. Scott followed a Carlton Fisk single with an opposite-field liner to right, which Reggie Jackson decided to play leapfrog with, letting the ball bound off his glove and over his head. Fisk cruised home, and with starter Luis Tiant mowing down Yankees right and left, the Sox 2-0 lead looked strong...
Take, for example, the on-again, off-again passing game of sophomore quarterback Rich Linden. Much praised-and deservedly so-for decision-making ability beyond his years in the starter's slot last season, Linden had some rocky moments in the pocket on Saturday afternoon...
...from Troy Jones's perspective, it's difficult to gripe about Saturday's results. Returned from injuries which marred his first two seasons with the Crimson, Jones made his case for the starter's job with a 19-carry, 100-yard renaissance...