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...Stanford 0 55 92 3) Bertzzi, Camilla U N C 0 56 26 200-yd. BREASTSTROKE 1) Triebie, Kathy Florida 2 16 19 2) Johnson, Diane C Artzona 2 16 22 3) Ginden, Julie Auburn 2 17 79 50-yd. BUTTERFLY 1) Gterkel, Jill Texas 0 24 22 2) Borgmann, Carol Texas 0 24 71 3) Learn, Beth N C State 0 24 97 400-yd. MEDLEY RELAY 1) Arizona State 3 45 96 2) Stanford 3 47 03 3) N Carolina State 3 47 77 200-yd. FREESTYLE 1) Sterkel, Jill Texas 1 48 18 2) Spalding, Tracy...
Besides Sterkel and Linehan, Longhorn Coach Paul Bergen expects top performances from distance freestyler Linda Irish, butterflyer Carol Borgmann (who finished second behind Sterkel in both the 50- and 100-yd. butterfly at last month's AIAW championships), and IMer Karen Werth. Werth has never been to Nationals before but already has the third fastest 200-IM in the country this year to her credit...
...Borgmann, a Chicago actuary, displayed his linguistic passion in an earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...
...take a Borgmann favorite, the etymological redundancy - ouija, for example, which consists of the French oin and the German ja, both meaning yes. What about a quadruple redundancy? For a hint, Borgmann aims his reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill...
...nine prepositions ("What did you bring the book that I do not wish to be read on to out of up from Down Under for?"). He will also be given the correct term for a 1 28th note in music (quasihemidemisemiquaver, or semi-hemidemisemiquaver). Good sport that he is, Borgmann asks his fans for suggestions. How about this: What is the significance of this series: 8, 14, 23, 28, 34, 42, 49, 57? Hint: any straphanger on the New York BMT subway can see the answer pass before his eyes...