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...Superior Court jury had awarded Andruskevics damages totalling $25,000 for the accident, but the trial judge nullified the award by issuing a "judgment notwithstanding verdict"--in effect overturning his own jury...
...Harvard it was a sweet victory indeed. The finality of the outcome left no room for doubt about the superior team in the nation. For Stimpson, who for three years played on a second-rate team, Sunday's triumph was the ultimate accomplishment in her squash career. Like Tom Murray cradling the Beanpot as he skated around Boston Garden a year ago, Stimpson's sipping of champagne from the Howe Cup following her team's 6-1 devastation of Princeton will be long remembered as a high point in Harvard athletics...
...long way from patience to control of the game tempo, and the Bulldogs used their superior quickness and anticipation to build up a 12-point lead about midway through the second half and then hung on for a 76-67 Ivy League...
...same size (8 in. by 10 in.) and has a sequence of chapters assessing U.S. military capabilities and the East-West balance. It is replete with statistics culled from Western sources; the Soviets almost never reveal their own military data. In one respect, Whence the Threat is even superior to its U.S. counterpart: the Soviets were able to print actual photographs, which are readily available, of such new American weapons as the B-1 strategic bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet...
...proletariat. The Communists have encouraged wildcat strikes and farm takeovers that have further hurt the already troubled economy. The Sandinistas have jailed 22 members of the Communist Party and at the same time arrested and imprisoned three prominent businessmen who are members of the country's Superior Council of Private Enterprise. The government accused both the left and the right of criticizing official policy, a practice that is now a serious offense in Nicaragua. Last week, while U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd visited the country, the Sandinistas banned three radio news programs for reporting "misinformation and lies" about the Honduran...