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...most eagerly awaited answers involved Mitchell's relationship with ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, who claimed in her confidential memo to her corporate superiors that Mitchell was "definitely helping us" with the ITT settlement. Mitchell's response was swift and curt. Mrs. Beard approached him three times at a Kentucky Derby party in Louisville, he said, and on the third sally, "I told her in rather harsh terms that I didn't appreciate her approaching me." His message was: shove...
After a Princeton win in the medley relay the records began to fall in the 1000 yd, free. Freshman Dick Baughman, pacing himself beautifully, upset Princeton's Curt Haydon edging him out with a spectacular winning time of 9:49.2, a new schools and pool record and the fourth fastest time in the nation this year...
...freestyle events should be the highlight of the afternoon. Both teams have nationally ranked freestylers in Harvard's Fred Mitchell and Princeton's Curt Haydon, and a possible matchup between the two in the 500-yd. free could result in a few changes in the pool record book. Freshman Dick Baughman, who held the Harvard record in the 1000-yd. free until Mitchell broke it against Springfield, will probably face Haydon in that distance, and either could break Michell's mark of 9:53.5, but there is no telling what events the Tiger star will swim...
...people are concentrating on registration. An elaborate record-keeping system involving triplicate forms and follow-up letters and phone calls has been set up for each potential supporter contacted by volunteers. The staff is studiedly silent about Spiro Agnew, brushing aside questions about the Vice President with a curt statement: "The important thing is to re-elect the President." That Agnew's attacks on students will be a liability in campaigning among the young was underscored at a meeting of youthful Nixon supporters in Pennsylvania last week. When asked which Administration officials would be welcome campaigners, one youth replied...
...truck were three people. One of them wore the famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean electric plant (showing, of course, that the power companies care about fish...