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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over 30 divers will vie for victory on the 1-meter board this afternoon. Harvard's Dan Watson, the winner on both boards last year, is no longer eligible for intercollegiate competition, which leaves the event in the air. The University of Pittsburgh boasts the largest diving corps, with five making the journey to Cambridge...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Easterns Kick Off at Blodgett; Crimson Looks For 8th Straight | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

Compare those numbers to the 53 teams which compete for the NCAA water polo crown or the 26 which vie for the NCAA Division II field hockey title...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Championship Links to the Past | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Three Black candidates backed by the CCA--State Rep. Saundra K. Graham, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, and Renae Scott--are expected to vie for the city's 5000 registered minority voters. As the ballot tabulating progresses, observers say that Reeves and Scott will feed votes into Graham's pile and assure her reelection...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Council Race Full of Wildcards | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

Through the 1960s and '70s, as chain-smoking and drinking took their toll on her health, Signoret was increasingly cast as a gutsy, worldly older woman. Probably her best performance of the period was in Moshe Mizrahi's 1977 film, La Vie Devant Soi (Madame Rosa in English), in which she played a Jewish ex- prostitute and survivor of a concentration camp. The theme of Jewish life in France was also the subject of her best-selling novel, Adieu, Volodia, which appeared this year. She had previously published two memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ma Belle: Simone Signoret: 1921-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Three of the eight teams who will vie for the titles in the individual flights at Harvard were ranked in the nation's top 20 for last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Host High-Powered Tourney | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

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