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...greatest liability and probably the main reason why, despite the endorsement of the Gaullist Party, he trailed Giscard last week. Throughout his 29-year political career, Chaban has striven to appear youthful, athletic and energetic-and succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about...
Both reigning Ivy champion Penn and NCAA semi-finalist Cornell will return with teams as good or better than last year's editions, while Brown will threaten those two for the top spot. Both Dartmouth and Yale have been gaining fast as a result of two consecutive crops of outstanding freshmen, and may give Harvard a serious run this year which they have failed to do in the past...
...netmen played in five out of the six finalist matches yesterday, resulting in three division championships...
...often takes a coach a good two or three years to get his ballplayers playing the way he wants them to. However, Knight took an erratic Indiana squad and despite the loss of star forward George McGinnis built a 17-8 NIT team last year and an NCAA finalist this season, employing a healthy does of inexperienced sophomores and freshmen...
This year's captain Terry Valenzuela, next year's team leader Eugene White, and IFA finalist Phillipe Bennett will represent the Crimson in the nation-wide competition. Valenzuela will fence sabre, White epee, and Bennett foil...