Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson tennis player Andy Chaikovsky likes to respond to excuse-makers with an old Ukrainian saying his father taught him: "If grandmother had wheels, she'd be trolley car." During Harvard's showdown match with powerhouse Princeton at the Palmer Dixon courts yesterday, there were enough "ifs" and excuses to form a fleet of trolley cars. But unfortunately for the Crimson, most of the close matches got away as the Tigers clinched the Eastern League tennis crown with a 7-2 victory...
There were a lot of ifs on that scoreboard--but then, you know, there's this old Ukrainian saying....CrimsonLisa C. HsiaCaptain KATIE DITZLER and the rest of the women's tennis team will conclude their 1978 spring schedule at 2 p.m. this afternoon when they host Dartmouth. "This is the big match for us," coach Peter Felske said yesterday...
...arrogant, hardline Communist apparatchik, Shevchenko clearly had not been moved by a sudden, overwhelming yearning for freedom. Moreover, the move seemingly cut short a brilliant career. First posted to the U.N. in 1963 as a counselor in the Soviet Mission, Shevchenko served in New York for seven years. The Ukrainian-born diplomat then returned to Moscow as an adviser to Foreign Minister Gromyko and reached ambassadorial rank at the unusually early age of 40. In 1973 he was sent back to the U.N. to fill the cushy Under Secretary's post...
...pianist is luckier than a singer. He can go on performing as long as his fingers maintain their strength and coordination. At 73, Vladimir Horowitz seems to be just as brilliant as when he first played the U.S. exactly 50 years ago. Last week in New York, the famed Ukrainian-born virtuoso celebrated the anniversary of that debut with some of the most electrifying music-making ever heard in Carnegie Hall, a hall that has had its share of excitement over the years...
Andy Chaikovsky, hot off a victory at the Ukrainian Open in early September, found himself "in the zone" during his "B" matches. "Chaikovsky picked up three victories before falling in his semifinal match with Yale's Jack Cobetto, the ultimate division winner...