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...despite the warmup, both of the Crimson's top two singles players experienced serious difficulties with their opponents' serves early in the match, and lost the first...
Then the game began. As usual, the warmup show was just a preview of the court magic that Murphy would perform in the game. Though Penn, the eighth-ranked team in the country, had everybody but the cheerleaders guarding him, he broke loose repeatedly, sprang high above the heads of his much taller defenders, and loosed long jump shots that seemed to loop out of the locker room. Just when he seemed caught in a tangle of defenders, he would uncork a pass to a teammate standing wide open under the basket. Late in the game, in a desperate attempt...
Quincy once again combined an alert defense with an explosive offense to roll up a 47-0 lead at halftime, and then coasted to its final win of the season in a virtual warmup for the Yale game...
Before long. Crimson runners returned from their warmup and started doing exercises. I was really psyched. I ran around with my instamatic, snapping artsy-craftsy pictures of jocks as the big moment approached. After Penn returned to the starting area. I found out who Julio was and started taking shots of Tupenny and Julio, standing together in the field. "Colburn is going to psyche them out." It was Mr. Fair, looking Irish, looking vindictive. I think he was pretty mad that Penn all of a sudden thought it could give Harvard's cross-country team some trouble...
...follow-up to the more intellectual World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin in 1966. But in his welcome, Honorary Chairman Billy Graham promised that the meeting "will affect every religious group in the country in the next decade." Keynoter Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (see box) continued the warmup, warning the delegates: "If the Gospel is demonstrated only vocally and not vitally in the everyday actions of Christ's followers, the whole thing becomes a farce." The next morning Graham's evangelist brother-in-law Leighton Ford roundly chastised the delegates...