Word: crowning
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Goodell outsprinted Hackett at the end of the grueling 1500-meter freestyle for the gold medal at Montreal in 1976 and whipped him in a two-man dual for the 1650-yd. freestyle crown at the NCAAs last year. Hackett won the most recent skirmishes between the two this past summer though, touching ahead of the UCLA sophomore in the 200, 400, and 1500-meter freestyles at the outdoor national championships...
...Amherst-Tufts encounter should be an easy one, but the Crimson's chances of a 1979 Ivy League crown are in question. While Yale's Ivy medalist Peter Teravainen and Princeton stand-out Bruce Smaklis both graduated, the Crimson also suffered several key departures, including two-year captain Alex Vik and four-season veteran Dave Paxton...
Last month Crown Prince Fahd, the de facto chief executive of Saudi Arabia's absolute monarchy, canceled a trip to Washington, ostensibly because of ill health. The Saudis had feared that the trip would coincide with U.S.-Egyptian-Israeli Foreign Minister talks at Camp David. Thus Fahd's arrival in Washington might have seemed to lend the Saudis' official sanction to the September accords, which Riyadh opposes as having been achieved at the expense of the rest of the Arab world. The continued upheaval in Iran and the growth of Soviet influence in South Yemen...
...tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots who fear that uncaring foreigners might buy the island or that developers...
...point out to them that this is a main topic of conversation in the country, as indeed it is." Since corruption causes social unrest, Akins considers this so important that he believed the warning should be delivered by President Carter "or an emissary of the President" to King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd or another member of the Saudi royal family. He conceded that such a warning would be unwelcome to the Saudis, but thinks that they might grudgingly take it to heart. Indeed, Akins cites a fascinating historical footnote to buttress his point: "There are many Saudis who believe...