Word: finalists
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...division, Bill Kaplan also reached the quarters before falling to Princeton's Tom Page, an eventual finalist, while John Havens fell in the third round, his first loss of the season, to Penn's Gil Mateer, last year's intercollegiate champion. Havens was ahead 2-1 in games before losing in five, with Barnaby remarking that Havens has shown "colossal progress for a freshman...
When Evergreen School District officials in Vancouver, Wash, were notified that their new Riverview Elementary School had been selected as a finalist for an architects' award as the best designed school in the nation, they were bemused. Drawings, blueprints and photographs of the school will be hung at a meeting of the American Association of School Architects in Atlantic City next month, and a winner will be selected. There is, however, one problem with Riverview. The district's beleaguered taxpayers last spring voted down a $3.6 million bond issue to pay for operating the school. Result: its playground...
...openers, there is nationally ranked Clemson (as in Clemson from the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is to collegiate basketball what Harvard is to rowing) and Syracuse (a finalist in the NCAAs last March) in this weekend's Tip-Off Tournament in South Carolina. Then there are those giants from Boston College, an angry UMass team, and four combined contests with Princeton (last year's NIT champs) and Penn, which plays Top Twenty basketball while residing in the Ivy League...
...national finalist while in high school, Penn's Gary Plantier grabbed a win in the 1000 freestyle. Harvard finished 1.2 in the 200 free, behind the performances of Brent Haywood and Paco Canales...
...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...