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Butterflier Norma Barton turned in the outstanding individual performance of the weekend, winning the 100 fly on Friday, the 200 on Saturday, and completing here triple with a come-from-behind victory in Sunday night's 50-yd. event...
...spite of the third place standing, several bright spots shone for the harvard team, especially Norma Barton's and Kathleen McCloskey's 1-2 finish in the 100 yard butterfly, as well as Pam Stone's and Adriana Holy's surprising 1-3 finish in the 1 meter diving competition...
...Barton, who was at about the halfway point of her 100 fly victory when the meet announcer prompted a terrific ovation by announcing a United States 4-3 hockey victory over the Soviet Union, said she felt "The piano falling on her back." (that's a swimming expression) with five yards left in the race, but won it anyway...
London's Royal Shakespeare Company has returned to the Greeks in a three-night marathon cycle often plays derived from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (seven of the ten) and a dramatization by John Barton of a segment of Homer. The cycle is presented as a trilogy: "The War," "The Murders" and "The Gods." Its purpose: to show the turbulent destiny of the doomed House of Atreus in chronological order. Barton, master builder of this endeavor, likes to work on the grand scale. In previous years he was celebrated for The Wars of the Roses, a panorama adapted from Shakespeare...
...chronological reasons, Barton had to supply the second play in "The War" himself. He has culled it from Homer and called it Achilles. Considering the audacity of the work, the result is exemplary...