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...longer Harrison stayed at Harvard the larger the communications gulf between the coach and his players grew. And this failure to relate was what ultimately undid him. Harrison never really adjusted to the Cambridge atmosphere and always seemed to regard the Harvard student as a somewhat less than normal human being. And if his strategic deficiencies restricted his success as a coach, his failure to communicate even deficient strategies handcuffed him all the more...
Budge owed much of his victory in that match to a backhand that was considered the best ever until Rosewall came along. Hit by Rosewall with a gracefulness that belies its guile and power, the stroke undid Laver in the closing exchanges of the last set. Throughout the match, Rosewall also employed two other great assets: a crisp and deftly angled volley, and an anticipation that turned some Laver bullets into boomerangs...
...they do not, there looms the shadow of the dilemma that undid Johnson in 1968: Nixon cannot defeat the invasion by intensifying the ground war, yet he dare not wholly retreat and thus recant on his pledges. So, once more, the next President of the U.S. may owe his job to events in a tiny, alien land 10,000 miles from Washington...
Houthakker left Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers on July 15. He said that the reduction of expenditures was "largely a book-keeping procedure," with little effect on the economy, and that the import surcharge "undid most of the liberating of trade since 1930." He added that it was "put on for domestic reasons looking forward...
...undid Harvard's carefully wrought lead with a mid-period explosion of three goals, all engineered by star sophomore center Tim Sheehy...