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Although the thinclads ended up with a dual meet record of 4-1 last season (losing only to Northeastern, 48-61), they could manage only a tie for fourth place in the Heptagonals, a meet in which Harvard usually does well, and it finished a distant 20th in the IC4A's at Princeton...
...that City College and Harvard would end up first and second. But Frankle's 6 1/2 points, added to the 5 1/2 points apiece amassed by Jon Jacobs, Bruce Leverett and Mitch Tobin, netted the team an unexpected tie. Princeton and the University of Maryland finished tied for a distant third...
...pomp and circumstance that surrounded Queen Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh would have greatly pleased her distant ancestor, Charles I, who insisted that "a subject and a sovereign are clean different things." But when the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their silver wedding anniversary this week, Charles may be twitching in his burial vault at Windsor Castle. As one part of the celebration, Elizabeth has invited to a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey 100 couples from round the realm whose only connection with royalty is that they share Her Majesty's wedding date...
...impetus to "the new politics" not only in the 9th, but in Congress as well. Coming from an Irish working class neighborhood and speaking a moderate-to-progressive dialect that also attracted upper-income groups, Moakley provided an essential link between the liberal coalition in Congress and the often-distant object of its programs, the American working man. Moakley thus put forth a program designed to "bring the people together" and his supporters' election night gathering was a convincing Phase I of the new 9th togetherness...
...expected, the meet emerged as a hard-fought duel between Princeton and Harvard, with Yale finishing a distant third on the rain-soaked 4.45 mile course. An icy wind which blew steadily at 25 mph kept the temperature down to 36 degrees for the race...