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Columbia would like nothing better than to spoil Bernal's return, but frankly they haven't got a prayer. The Lions have developed in recent years a reputation as the most obnoxious team in the Eastern League (their totally uncalled for 102-11 romp over hapless Penn last season is a case in point), and it is extremely doubtful that even their notoriously shady home officiating can rescue them from their fate this weekend...
What we are witnessing, in the words of Crimson coach Joseph W. Bernal, "is the creation of the Harvard swimming dynasty of the 1980s," designed to rival that of Yale in the 1940s and 50s--when the focus of national swimming attention centered on New Haven and the Ivy League...
...majority of Iranian students were, and are, bitter opponents of the Shah. But some have grown accustomed to life in the U.S., and many have no wish to return to the uncertain prospects of Khomeini's Iran. Temporarily, at least, the U.S. has become an uncomfortable haven for the students. "People are going to start calling for our heads," worried one Iranian at Columbia. To avoid the ire of Americans, many Iranian students have adopted a low profile, saying little or nothing about recent events in Tehran. "Iranians usually don't take things passively," said Marilyn Thompson, director...
...less attentive to downtown business interests, may be less anxious to annex white suburban areas until services in the center city improve, and will surely be more solicitous of poor areas. Vows Ernest McGowen, a black mailman who will represent Houston's northeast section: "People in office haven't heard from this side of town, but they will...
Wall Street's bond market traditionally has been the haven for little old ladies with poodles. Unlike the frantic gold or stock exchanges, the "fixed income market" was as relaxed as a Norman Rockwell painting. On a normal day, prices might change one-sixteenth of a point...