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Leading the Eli varsity is captain and freestlyer Steve Clark, winner of three Olympic gold medals and holder of the world record of 52.9 for the 100 meters. Last week against Princeton, Clark came off the bench and swam an incredible 45.9 100-yard anchor lap to win the freestyle relay...
...inspired team effort by the spirited Harvard runners. The spectators' applause for the hometown Cornell performers paled time and again before the cheers that rose from the Crimson bench each time a Harvardman was on the boards...
...final Crimson win came from cocentric Walt Hewlett. By the time the two-mile rolled around, the Harvard team had first place sewed up, but every man on the bench knew that it would be a miserable ride home unless Walt could atone for his terrible showing here last year...
...essential features of the British parliamentary system is the shadow Cabinet. Seated on the Opposition front bench in Commons, each of its members is assigned to shadow a minister in the regular Cabinet, catch him up wherever possible, and be prepared to take over if the Opposition party comes to power...
Another comer on the Tory front bench is Christopher Soames, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, who moved up from Agriculture to replace troublesome Peter Thorneycroft as shadow Defense Minister. Thorneycroft, whose wildly expensive projects for military aircraft had proved embarrassing to Sir Alec, was reassigned to shadow the Home Office, where he will have less chance to get into mischief. The irascible and erratic Quintin Hogg, who had contested Sir Alec's nomination as Prime Minister in 1963, was another casualty: he was replaced as shadow Minister of Education and Science, henceforth assigned only to undefined "special...