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Harvard men's swimming coach Joe Bernal's recruiting net, its bait sweetened by January's completion of Blodgett Pool and by the aquamen's outstanding record last season, has harvested a crop of freshmen fish rivaled in Harvard history only by 1977's record haul...
RUNNING BACK--A bumper crop, led by Cornell tailback Joe Holland, who will undoubtedly win the Asa Bushnell cup for the Ivy player of the year. Harvard's first-rate scooter, Ralph Polillio, joins Holland on the first team at the halfback spot. Brown's Marty Moran weighs in as the first-team fullback, leaving Dartmouth's Jeff Dufresne, Penn's Denis Grosvenor, Yale's Ken Hill and Princeton's Cris Crissy on the second team. (Harvard's P. Wayne Moore makes the all one-game team for his brilliant performance against Columbia for breaking his ankle...
...freshman crop is led by breastroker Adele Joel, who has already set one pool record. Breastrokers have been a rare breed for the women's swim team and her arrival will give the swimmers much needed depth. "We finally have a breastroker, after three years of trying," Walsh exulted yesterday...
...rapid changes being introduced have apparently discomfited some and angered others whose families were touched by the purge of radicals (experts believe 25% of all Communist Party officials were affected). If the modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel...
...never before backpacked more than three days at a stretch. Likewise, I had never been as strong physically, or as comfortable with the equipment strapped on my back or as confident in the ability of one part of my mind to suppress the fear and panic that could crop up in its other parts...