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Harvard's Elizabeth Evans, who had not practiced during the week because of a cold, took the first set against Sheehan, 6-4, but then faltered in the next two, 3-6, 4-6. The freshman's style of play, an aggressive serve-and-volley game, worked against her Saturday as Sheehan used consistent baseline play to wear out her rival over the course of the marathon match...
Three highly touted freshmen led the way for Harvard yesterday with wins in singles competition. Matched against Penn State rookie Linda Learmonth at number two, the Crimson's Elizabeth Evans displayed an impressive serve-and-volley game and cruised...
...meeting. But on its fourth day, the national congress of the in dependent Solidarity union federation suddenly erupted into a full-fledged political convention, complete with floor fights, rousing speeches and foot-stomping ovations. Before the 892 delegates had finished their work late last week, they fired off a volley of provocative resolutions that struck at the very heart of Communist authority- both at home and abroad. That action stirred TASS, the Soviet Union's news agency, to charge that Solidarity was engaged in "an anti-socialist and anti-Soviet orgy" and was preparing for a seizure of power...
...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...
Serving at 4-5 in the crucial third set, McEnroe fell behind 15-30. Losing the next point would make a break more than likely, and he would be down two sets to one. He hit a volley long; the linesman missed it, but the umpire called it out. 15-40 and double set point. Once again those evil officials were out to get Little Johnnie...