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Much more probable is Co-Captain Mike Gielen's opportunity to make history tonight when Harvard faces Yale at Briggs Cage (7:30 p.m. tip-off). Gielen needs 12 more points to join the career 1000-point club for the Crimson. Roby's troops will continue their historical quest tomorrow night at Marvel Gymnasium in Providence, R.I. against cellar-dweller Brown...
Harvard (3-2) fell fast and early. The first play after the tip-off, Vanderbilt center Wendy Scholtens scored on a reverse lay-up inside and was fouled. The Crimson had two fouls and a turnover in the first two minutes of the game and trailed...
...tip-off, says an American counterintelligence official, came from information collected over many months suggesting that the Warsaw Pact countries possessed "bits and pieces" of top-secret NATO wartime contingency plans. Investigators then discovered proof that Soviet planners had highly classified documents. Last week West German officials arrested retired U.S. Sergeant First Class Clyde Lee Conrad and charged him with being the linchpin in an "especially grave" Soviet intelligence penetration of Western defenses...
...Harvard--off and running from the opening tip-off--did just that in its 68-63 victory over Vermont...
...Manchester, N.H., motel room one afternoon last month, Jackson rested under the sheets of a king-size bed. There was something sultan-like about him as he sat propped up, arms folded across his chest, wearing a white undershirt. His voice was the tip-off to his great pleasure as he told of large white audiences that turned out to see him around the country. 'There's a real phenomenon going on out there," Jackson said. Organizations that shunned him in 1984 now urge him to visit. The Montana state legislature gave him a standing ovation. He described...