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...must-win event for Harvard if it plans to hold onto the lead is the 800-yd. freestyle relay. The fearsome foursome of Coglin, Mack, Cooper and Hackett is heavily favored (and in fact could do quite well at the NCAAs later this month); a choke here could be very costly...
Overall the Crimson took four out of five bouts that were decided by one point. As Cooper said later, "We don't choke. Even though our technique was just disgusting we toughed it out. In a similar way against Dartmouth on Sunday when we fell behind 3-1, we didn't give up. We grittily came back to win. I just hope that tomorrow against the University of Rhode Island we can fence rather than tough our way to victory...
Harvard seemed to have set itself an unbreakable precedent by blowing Fordham, UConn and the highranking University of Detroit off the floor in the first half of their match-ups only to choke in the second stanza...
...heralded Tiger choke of 1977-78--Princeton has played eight five-point games this year, and lost them all--was not to be, however. Princeton came alive with 5:30 left to go, when reserve center Tom Young sank a three-point play and the Tigers went on to score 12 of the next 14 points...
...Russians fail in the Arctic and the Soviet Far East, they would be forced to turn to the Middle East for supplies. That prospect deeply worries Pentagon planners, who fear that Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa stems from Moscow's desire to control choke points along the tanker routes that carry oil to Western markets. The Saudi rulers and the Shah of Iran share concern that the Kremlin might resort to force to secure new supplies. For all parties concerned. the best solution by far would be for the Soviets to succeed brilliantly in their Arctic efforts...