Word: diver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dartmouth favored, if the Crimson is so strong in the first few events? It is hard to know why, but one of the reasons is diver Mike Brown, who was Eastern champion on the one-meter board last winter. He has been having an excellent year, and Harvard's Dave Silver and Tom Wallace will have a tough time trying to match him today. "If we get a split in the dives, we're golden," Cahalan said. "But if we lose both, we're in trouble," he added...
Harvard assistant coach Harold Miroff had expected the diving to be a tough place to earn points, and he was right. Ken Light, Cornell's excellent sophomore diver, was first at both heights. Teammates Tim Millhiser and Matt Leone picked up third-place points. Dave Silver, who is doing a good job of filling the shoes of Bill Murphy, earned seconds in both the one-meter and three-meter to prevent Cornell sweeps...
Other witnesses included Associate Medical Examiner Donald Mills, who said that he had repeated earlier public testimony that Mary Jo's death was due solely to drowning. Scuba Diver John Farrar told of how he recovered Miss Kopechne's body, but was not permitted to expound on his theory that Mary Jo could have lived for some time by breathing from an air pocket at the rear of the overturned car. Deputy Sheriff Huck Look was asked about the black car with at least two people in it that he had seen near Dike Bridge about an hour...
...Crimson dominated the diving without too much trouble. Dave Silver and Dick Eisenberg swept the one-meter competition, and since Columbia has only one diver, the three-meter event was canceled. Harvard thereby missed its chance to break its record for points in a meet...
...considerable lacunae of the case, the speculation about Edward Kennedy's odd, harrowing night revolves about two central questions: Could he have saved Mary Jo's life by seeking help swiftly, as Diver John Farrar, who recovered Mary Jo's body, claims? Was Kennedy trying for nine or ten hours to elude responsibility for her death? Public interest in the case has sometimes been morbid or even prurient but, as Kennedy knows, much of the curiosity is not only understandable but legitimate. Eventually, he will have to satisfy...