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Nonetheless, Scott rattled the traditionalists when he hired Tommie Smith (the sprinter who is best remembered for his clenched-fist salute on the victory stand after he won the 200-meter dash at the 1968 Olympics) as track and basketball coach. Last week, in keeping with his crusade to help blacks "become involved in the brains of sport, not just the brawn,", he appointed Cass Jackson as football coach. Of Smith, Scott says: "He's a pretty quiet, dignified guy. He is not a black-power person who's going to blow up the gymnasium with a hand...
...dash, Northeastern's Bill Milton should present Baylee Reed with a real challenge, while Paul Horrigan should do the same to Harvard's Nick Leone...
Work they did, and the Eagles were intent on making them work hander. The much improved Eagles took first place in the mile the 60-yard dash, the long jump and the triple jump. But the Crimson responded in kind, with best performances--including new faculty record--abounding...
...Freud. Since R is a writer, N has opportunities for even more teasing. One need reach no farther than the book for words to praise it. R is a "true artist . . . with a diabolically evocative style." Indeed it seems that R's prose has "a richness, an ostensible dash, that caused some of the less demanding reviewers in his adopted country to call him a master stylist." To aid that laggard crowd, Nabokov has provided some blatant examples of the wordplays he is famous for. Proofreading R's new book, he puzzles about an incidental character named Adam...
Army appears strongest in the dash where Bob Best and Ernie Madeira are heavily favored. Cadet Cort Bivens will be the man to beat in the 600, with Harvard's Nick Leone and Bill Oakerman trying to do the beating...