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Lightweight Dan Blakinger, who took sixth place in last year's tourney, entered the preliminary match seeded third. He barely got by an opponent from Temple and pulled out a 3-1 win in a final round surge. Blakinger had an easier duel in the quarterfinals against Cornell, and polished...
Penn captain Rick Zweig walked off the mat grinning after he forced Harvard's Richie Starr to a 2-2 tie in the 190 duel. "Talk about disappointments," Lee said. "Zweig is not a better wrestler and he knows it. That's why he wrestled for the tie." Zweig closed the 0-2 score by executing a reverse in the last round. Starr rebounded by pinning his F & M foe and upending Rutger's Bill Woodale...
Rutgers' standouts, Jerry Nisivochia (126) and Bob Ciarocki (134), will duel Harvard's Bill Haley and Carl Biello. "That Nisivochia is damn tough." Lee said. "He's going to give Haley a good match, believe me." Lee described Ciarocki as "scappy" and said Biello might have the edge in the 134 meeting. F&M's best grappler, Ed, Baxter, battles Harvard's Dan Blakinger...
What mattered most to Harvard wrestling coach John Lee before this year's duel with Navy was averting another 37-0 rout by the Midshipmen, who last year had a field day punishing the Crimson. So when Harvard's grapplers nabbed 7 points to Navy's 35 on Saturday, Lee was overjoyed...
...nadir came in 1958, when Pearson, newly named as leader of Canada's Liberal Party, lost an election to a Tory firebrand prairie lawyer named John Diefenbaker by the most lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel between Mike and Dief. Pearson's liberals finally won more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight...