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...word hereabouts, the weather and O.J. Simpson, and the two local subjects, heat and homicide, utterly eclipsed the Cup, the most popular sporting event on earth. Nevertheless there was a parade, and bunting and flags were hung about, and the city cleaned itself and put out flowers and swept bums under the rug. Outside those who stood to turn a dollar (about 200 million of them were expected to be spent in Chicago during the event) and who therefore were keen on the sport, an air of polite interest invested the town. The atmosphere was reported similar in eight other...
...threat of military intervention. No one knows whether Clinton will follow through with an invasion, but the steady drip of leaks has created an atmosphere of frantic speculation that, combined with a dearth of hard facts, makes for effective psychological war. Amid all the uncertainty, Port-au-Prince is swept by sensational rumors, such as last week's report that the U.S. embassy had been passing out iridescent paint so that Americans could identify their homes to invading troops...
...team returned to the Continental U.S. and enjoyed more success after that. It split a doubleheader with Bryant on April 5, and swept Rhode Island Collage two days later, before plunging into a succession of double headers with Division I foes...
...larger-school competition less kind to the team, as it won only seven of its next 22. It swept Holy Cross and Cornell, split with Boston College, Vermont and Penn, and was swept by Maine,Boston University, Princeton ,Providence, Yale and Hartford...
Things continued on the right track after winter break, as the team got on a successful streak at home. The squad swept Bridgewater State and Boston College on January 12, and then, after a close loss to East Stroudsberg, beat Princeton and Boston College...