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Harvard junior Dave Berkoff captured first place in the 100-yard backstroke at the NCAA Swimming Championships in Austin, Texas this weekend. Berkoff finished the event in 48.20 seconds, beating Jay Mortenson of Stanford by almost half a second...
Last week, when the Austin Peay Governors came home to Clarksville, Tenn., overtime losers to Providence after conquering Illinois, the whole town met them at the interstate in a caravan complete with fire engine and mayor. Senior Forward Bob Thomas missed the foul shot that would have won the Providence game in regulation, and the anguished picture of him leaving the court is one of the tableaus of the tournament. Thomas was the last player to get up to speak to the caravan, but he never got anything out for all the cheering...
...carefully examined data from computer printouts. They were hoping that some of the ethereal particles called neutrinos, predicted by theory to be produced during a supernova, had penetrated the earth, leaving their trail in huge liquid- filled neutrino detectors. Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, of the University of Texas in Austin, summarized the activity while addressing a hastily convened meeting of astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center the week after the discovery, "These are frantic times...
...wealthy Republican businessman who served as Governor from 1979 to 1983, Clements regained the office last November from Democrat Mark White, partly by accusing him of duplicity. As chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a post he gave up when he took office in Austin, Clements assailed the S.M.U. system for permitting wealthy boosters to pay football players to perform for the Dallas school. Such practices brought the school seven citations from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violating its rules...
...farm belt and the oil patch, the changes have added to the pressure on shaky developers. Two weeks ago Dallas-based Vantage Companies, the seventh largest U.S. developer, notified its creditors of plans to delay some loan payments and restructure as much as $1 billion in debts. Last week Austin-based Nash Phillips Copus, the seventh largest U.S. builder of single-family homes, put itself into Chapter 11 proceedings...