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Freshman standout Darlene Beckford, a local star from Cambridge Latin High School who recently won the 1500 meter Junior Championships, captured first place with a time of 17:42 while sophomore Paula Newnham trailed just seconds behind at 17:47. Coach Hunt looks for both Beckford and Newnham, holder of last year's Ivy championship and the meet record, to better the course record of 17:17 by the end of this year's season...
...first at Harvard for rookie coach MacAusland. This year's team, with just one senior on the roster, had been expected to face a rebuilding year. But co-captain Sailer voiced a general optimism after the Bowdoin win, saying an Ivy League Championship and regional play-off berth were both very real possibilities. "(Coach MacAusland's) just what we needed at this point," Sailer said...
When word that Argentina had won the world junior soccer championship in Tokyo reached Buenos Aires, the country burst into frenzied celebration. Two days later, thousands of screaming fans gathered in the capital's Plaza de Mayo as President Jorge Rafael Videla welcomed home the squad, still beaming from its 3-1 triumph over the Soviet Union. Meanwhile a much smaller crowd lined up, almost unnoticed, outside the headquarters of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.). More than 1,500 people waited to present petitions to the visiting Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Last week the commission...
Harvard sports lore is full of stories about Barnaby, or "The Master," as the squash cognoscenti often say. Like the time he rebuilt the post-war squad in one year, leading them to a championship the next. Or his dramatic finale as squash coach, when his Crimson racquetmen toppled heavily-favored Princeton, 6-3, to cop yet another national title...
...America basketball player at U.C.L.A. for four straight years, the only woman ever so honored. As a senior, she led the Bruins to their first women's national championship. A star of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, she can shoot and rebound well, but she excels as a playmaker. She sharpened her skills in pickup games against the guys - and the guys were the N.B.A. playmates of her big brother Dave, a U.C.L.A. All-America and now a power forward for the Milwaukee Bucks. At the age of 24, Ann Meyers is the paradigm of the new woman athlete...