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Wine scandals are like bad vintages. They don't happen every year, but often enough to offend good taste. In 1974 the Bordeaux region was rocked by the news that the respected firm of Cruse et Fils Freres had sold cheap Midi reds under more expensive Bordeaux labels. In 1979 Burgundy Shipper Bernard-Noël Grivelet was accused of peddling an inferior blend under the finest names of the Cote d'Or. Now comes a 1980 scandal that may dwarf them both...
Today's events begin with the 500 freestyle, a Crimson speciality. Hackett, Countryman, Maximoff, et. al., should provide a plethora of points from which to start Harvard off on the right track. The 200 individual medley and the 50 free follow where Harvard's future is hopeful but not quite as certain. Also featured today will be the 200 Medley Relay, where the Crimson's 3:22.30 clocking against Indiana goes up against Princeton's 3:22.83 which they swam against Harvard. Finally, in the one-meter diving the Crimson will be represented by Schramm and Mule...
...White House spies keep an eye on proceedings, planting Watergate seeds [the Canuck letter, et. al] as part of Nixon's sabotage program. Ed "Big Ed" Muskie, the Maine senator with "a free ride" to the Democratic nomination, breaks down on the back of a flatbed truck, flustered by Manchester Union-Leader publisher Generalissimo William Loeb. George McGovern, the soft-spoken South Dakotan teacher and World War II bomber pilot, reminds enough voters that Vietnam hasn't gone away to keep Muskie under 50 per cent and get his own candidacy rolling. Nixon? He's too engrossd with Peking, Chou...
...Third World War, Hackett, et...
...that he says was written only at the insistence of his publisher, the author hurriedly speaks of old agonies, the balm of forgetfulness, and of his conviction that all wars are futile and immoral. There is even the ritual reference to what Wilfred Owen called the old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori"- how sweet and beautiful it is to die for one's country...