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...member Soviet gymnastic team now touring the U.S. is being hailed as much for its trencherman as its skill on the high bars. Last week when the team arrived in San Francisco, plates of pears, mangoes, bananas and pineapples (all unavailable in Moscow) were awaiting them. But the star of the team, Olga Korbut, prefers apples. Said Olga's special bodyguard, "She eats them by the dozen. In fact, she eats everything in sight." None of the French fries, hamburgers, pancakes or cases of catsup, however, make the slightest bulge on Olga's 82-lb. frame. When...
...skills demonstrated by the Harvard team in winning this championship encompass qualities very different from the debater's stereotyped image as a William F. Buckley-type of verbal gymnast. Instead, academic debate has been evolving toward emphasis on such scholarly values as thoroughness of research and analytic depth. Although presentation is still important, academic debate today is much more a practical exercise in the techniques of evaluating public policy than a contest in rhetorical and persuasive skills. Ideally, tournament debate may be viewed as a laboratory in which alternative ideas generated by the social sciences are subjected to the test...
Carl Rizzo '75, a club member, said last night that a high school gym coach at the Cape called him recently to ask about Harvard's gymnastics program. The coach had a senior gymnast who was interested in Ivy League competition...
...telephone conversation yesterday, the director, Boston State coach Joseph Dorsey, said that in a meeting held five minutes before competition began, he stressed his and Boston State's potential liability if Colker got hurt. Dorsey said he assumed that as a gymnast, Colker was not insured. At Boston State they aren't, he added...
This Saturday Colker will be the only Harvard gymnast competing in the New England Championships at Boston State...