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Final results available yesterday indicate that Kirkland reigns as intramural champ and will retain possession of the Straus Cup for the second straight year. Coming up third behind Winthrop and Quincy after the fall slate of events, the K-House squads blew steam and performed impressively enough to edge Winthrop out of the top spot by only two-and-a-half points at the end of the winter season. While happy about Kirkland's victory, Peter Beilenson, the House athletic secretary, said last night that the level of K-House participation was down from last year. Final point totals...
...ratings and looked as if it would be there forever. Then, in 1976-77, upstart ABC pulled ahead, where it stayed for three seasons. CBS retrieved the top spot by a fraction in 1980, and last week, with the final figures in for this season, it was undisputed champ again, with a Nielsen rating of 19.8, compared with ABC's 18.2 and NBC's 16.6. CBS had eight series in the top ten, leading off with Dallas and 60 Minutes, ABC had two, and poor NBC none at all. Even CBS has a little something to worry about...
Yale lived up to its reputation as the reigning New England champ and co-holder of the Ivy League title by forcing the Crimson to struggle for every...
...many people are aware that Nessie, the serpentine monster that is said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, has an American cousin cruising the depths of Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York. Champ, as the lake monster is called, was first reported in 1609 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Since then there have been some 100 purported sightings of the serpent, which is said to measure anywhere from 10 ft. to 45 ft. and to have a horse-shaped head bearing two tiny horns. Over the centuries, Champ has managed to take care of himself quite...
...lawmakers do not enjoy unanimous support, however. One Clifford Rollins of Rutland, Vt, claiming to be weary of the "hocus pocus" surrounding the monster, is offering a $500 bounty to anyone "who can deliver me Champ's hide, dead or alive." So far, no one has tried to collect...