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...Crimson, though taking fourth (5:58.7), did manage to eke out at least some satisfaction, beating Yale (5:59.3). The winner, of course, was Washington (5:49.5) with Orange Coast (5:57.8) and California (5:52.1) strung out behind...
Navy's Joe Murphy battled to his second 20.97 of the season to take first place honors in the 50-yd. free. Murphy's unexpected duplication of his personal best enabled him to eke out the win with Princeton's Andy O'Hara and Harvard's co-captain Geoff Seelen only inches behind...
...Lincoln Djang's expected win in the 200-yd. individual medley. The much-heralded Djang, who took last year off to train for the Olympics, had to wage a fierce battle with Harvard's fast-finishing Tom Verdin. Only Verdin's weak performance in the butterfly allowed Djang to eke out the win. Djang later followed Countryman home in the 500-yd. free...
...Jesse Helms, came from behind to unseat Democratic Incumbent Robert Morgan; in Georgia, Herman Talmadge was upset by Businessman Mack Mattingly. Ironically, the man who next to Reagan is most identified with conservatism almost lost. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, 71, seemed infirm to many voters but managed to eke out a narrow victory. Some of the key Senate contests...
...Royals had trouble until the eighth inning, when they finally scored a run off Carlton. But for the second time McGraw managed to eke out a save, aided by an alley-oop catch by First Base man Pete Rose, who speared a pop-up bobbled by Catcher Bob Boone for a crucial ninth-inning...