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...HAVEN CONN., March 7-Divers Dick Eisenberg and Mike Wallace, and the freestyle relay team were the only Harvard winners this afternoon in Payne Whitney Gymnasium as Yale easily beat the Crimson for the eighth consecutive year...
Surrounded by such specimens, you stand nude for the weigh-in ceremonies and realize what a wreck you are. Then out of the gymnasium waddles some titan of industry looking like a grapefruit in his gold stretch-nylon sweatsuit. "Hi, tiger!" says Spa Director Ward Hutton. "You've got a good sweat going!" Wearily looking up, the titan mutters, "Hello, muscles." Suddenly you don't feel embarrassed any more...
SHIFTING to the next beer can, I could not help wonder why The Band chose to play at B.C. The audience overflowed in what is normally the school's gymnasium, but they were, in essence, a paradox of themselves, and of many rock audiences today. There was a certain incongruity in their throwing paper airplanes into the stage one minute, and applauding with what seemed to be appreciation the next. It seemed childish to shout down relief man Bobby Kosser between The Band's sets, and then to shout for an encore of The Band...
After the final vote, the moderates shook Adelbert Gymnasium, scene of the conference, with a wild five-minute victory celebration. The Independent Front countered the moderates' chant of "Bring the Troops HomeNow!" with cries of "Bullshit! Bullshit!" The convention was uncontrollable for several minutes. Delegates attempted to seize the microphones, and fist-fights erupted in different parts of the room. Dan Siegel, the former Berkeley student body president who chaired Sunday's session, eventually brought the meeting back to order...
Last year, a fighting Eli indoor track squad upset Harvard by a single point at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium, shattering the Crimson's lengthy domination of the Big Three meet. But Tiger Tim McCann, who placed third in the weight throw, had signed a professional football contract for $500 shortly before the meet, and upon subsequent investigation was declared ineligible...