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...poor little lambs who have lost our way, baa, baa, baa." The sad, self-pitying song was echoing from the Saigon residence of U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Were things really going that badly? Certainly not. To celebrate the founding of the Saigon Yale Club, the famed Whiffenpoof Song (an adaptation of one of Rudyard Kipling's glamorizations of the white man's burden) was being sung by old Eli Bunker, class of '16, and some 15 others, among them a U.S. general who graced the occasion in a Y-inscribed blue T shirt. The ceremony was complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1971 | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...Nosal, Harvard's best 35-lb. weight man, has also bettered last year's winning NCAA mark in his event this year. But Nosal, unlike Colburn, has been inconsistent this year. Since throwing the weight 61' 100" in the BAA's, Nosal hasn't bettered 60. There is a possibility that Nosal will unleash a throw that will earn him first, but it's much more likely that he'll battle for fourth of fifth...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Top Thinclads Compete, Protest Ruling at NCAA's | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...Nosal, defending champion in the 35-pound weight throw. was third tonight with a toss of 599 and three-quarter inches. If he could have thrown the weight 61'101/2" as he did in January at the BAA Meet, he would have...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Superb Effort By Colburn Gives Him Second In Mile | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

Villanova, anchored by sub-four minute miler Dave Patrick, has beaten Harvard twice in the last two weeks, at the BAA Meet and in the Philadelphia Track Classic, Michigan, probably the fastest of the five teams, has run a 7:27 two-mile relay...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Seek Fifth Boston Area Title | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...anchorman, who was in his second race of the night, couldn't hold off Villanova's Dave Patrick, who is an indoor half-mile world record holder. Harvard's time was 1.2 seconds behind Villanova and .2 off the University record the same quartet produced in last winter's BAA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaw Sets Mile Mark With 4:05.7 at Garden | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

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