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...audience is lulled in smiles. Then all at once the boat is rocking wildly in farcical white water. Item: Actress Ball, wearily trying to climb into bed with the trailer tipped sideways at a 30° angle, suddenly loses balance, reels against the outside door, does a back dive into a two-foot-deep puddle of rich brown mud. As she sits there, looking like a beauty-parlor victim whose facial has got out of hand, Desi appears and inquires mildly, "What's the matter, honey, can't you sleep...
Hawkins took the 220, however, and Don Mulvey took the back stroke after having teamed with Zani and Whatley for a winning 300-yard medley relay. More important were the one-two finishes of Pete Smails and Chuck Walter in the dive and Egan and Rapperport in the 440. The team had shown weakness earlier in both events...
Feierabend's sled was the next to last to start. Carefully, for luck, he touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd...
...downing Army the Crimson did not match Yale's score of 65-9, but neither did Hal Ulen enter his best men in each event. Nevertheless, the varsity's weakness off the board was evident, as it could only place third in the high dive...
...Crimson should have most of its trouble in the backstroke, dive, and 100 and 220-yard frestyle. Pete Witteried,, the lone winner against Yale, is the Cadets' standout...