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...Harvard was embroiled in student strikes and building takeovers, a seven-year-old Newton resident started playing tennis with a racquet that had to be cut down to a size small enough for her to handle. While her teenage sister took tennis lessons, Betsy watched, sneeking in a quick volley or two at the end of each instruction hour...
...cake baked by his stepmother. But it was more an occasion for sadness than joy for Marine Private First Class Robert Russell Garwood, 33, the last American P.O.W. to come home from Viet Nam. Instead of a hero's welcome, he was greeted on his return by a volley of accusations by other ex-P.O.W.s that he was actually a deserter who had willingly helped the Viet Cong beat and interrogate American prisoners. Last week the Marine Corps asked its naval superiors to conduct a formal investigation of the charges, which Garwood denies...
Miraculously, the Middies prevailed. At 1-3, Chaikovsky's put-away volley sailed out when two strings popped just as he hit the ball. And Navy won the game's two final points as one volley landed square on the base line and another nicked...
...service break to take the first set from Weise and Wade Batterton, the Crimson tandem broke Weise's serve at 6-5 to send the second set to a breaker. With Batterton serving at four-all. Shaw returned two backhands from the ad-court, then hit a high forehand volley that Weise leaped for but netted. Point, game, set, match, and team match...
...Curley reversed that score to capture the second set 6-3, the pair traded six service breaks before the score reached 6-6 in the critical third set. Then, at 4-4 in the tie-breaker, Curley, unable to put away three previous match points, set a low backhand volley down the center of court which jammed Stone on his forehand side. The return landed a foot wide of the sideline on Curley's backhand side, and the Crimson had its fourth and in the end, decisive, singles victory...