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...first item Caulkins addressed was the well-publicized conversation she had with a reporter after she beat world record-holder and Olympic gold medalist Petra Schneider at Gainesville in the 400 meter individual medley. "I didn't say I was the best, I said I was one of the best." Caulkins explains, adding apologetically. "It was just hard not to feel good after I beat the world's champion...
...really rugged assignment for the college kids to come back this soon after NCAA's." Concord-Pleasant Hill Coach Nort Thornton said. Many aren't coming at all. For Thornton this means that his top freestyler. Pelle Holmertz, and world record holder Par Arvidsson are going to Sweden for the Swedish Nationals. Add to this the retirement of last year's double winner in the backstroker. Peter Rocca, and you'll know what led Thornton to say. "We're certainly not the team we were last year...
Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle. He is the field marshal for the downtrodden, having assembled 185 organizations into a budget coalition to contend with Ronald Reagan, who does not smoke but who happens to wear a dinner jacket just as often and rides in a chauffeured Cadillac limousine...
...INEXORABLE FORCES of history have finally caught up with that inexorable force of the past, the Harvard English Department. Some anonymous and mischievious benefactor has offered the University $1 million for a professorship in those rarefied precincts, provided the holder is a woman. Harvard's last sanctuary is about to be violated, and there are inhabitants thereof who do not wish to see it happen...
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, who organized the 20-year effort to raise the $1 million necessary for the chair, yesterday said Kestnbaum was active in many areas of business and politics. He added that the holder of the position could teach at the Business School, the Kennedy School or the College...