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...Benn Merritt. Alan Birch churned to a first in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:15, a race from which Merritt expected only third. Merritt also credited Rich Tompkins and Peter Alter with good performances under pressure. The Crimson's iron men against Army were Shrout, Peter Adams, Steve Coy, and Phil Chase, each of whom swam two events and then combined to form the relay tearn that decided the meet in the final race...
...freshmen contest, four of Coach Benn Merritt's swimmers swam three events each as the Yardlings beat the Plebes 53-42, winning in the final relay. The four, Phil Chase, Stephen Coy, Peter Adams, and Bill Shrout scored 34 points together and took the freestyle without trouble...
...boyish, lean Texan, now 38, is thus the most relentless experimenter in U.S. art. Experiment has led him to make much coy or trashy art, but also it has eventually led him to such original and important work as Tracer (opposite page). He won the Venice Biennale this summer, and his works are now as well known in London and Tokyo as in New York. He and his friend Jasper Johns are the leading painters of their generation...
Though he is now his party's presidential nominee, there is some reason to believe that Goldwater would still rather be Right than President. He long resisted the demands of his followers that he declare his candidacy. A man without personal guile, Goldwater was not just being coy. It was the conservative cause he cared about, not the achievement of personal power; it was a matter of principles, not politics. "I'm not a philosopher," he said. "I'm a salesman trying to sell the conservative view of government." As far as holding the nation...
...Burtons read verses alternately in a sort of ping-poem match (hah-hah!). Many of the items had apparently been selected for their meaning to the Burtons. Richard, for example, started off by reciting To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, and one of the poems Elizabeth read was Thomas Hardy's The Ruined Maid...