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...Link's crew heard the harsh, rasping sound of metal rubbing against metal. Apparently pushed off course by an unexpectedly strong current, the sub had become ensnarled in cables and other debris around the sunken warship. "I'm hung up," radioed Sea-Link's pilot Archibald ("Jock") Menzies, 30, who tried futilely to work the sub free with its six little electric propulsion motors...
...Canadian has very set ideas about letting horses have their heads. "I may not have been a top jockey," he says, "but I've never believed in fighting horses, trying to change the way they want to run. I lost a lot of races when I was a jock taking orders from people who didn't know anything about their horses." At 61, Laurin says that "I've no thought of retirement." He is in fact looking enthusiastically to the future. "I've got a half brother to Secretariat and a half brother to Riva Ridge...
...that every House should have the same mix of public school and private school graduates, of scientists and humanists, and of academic brightness and benightedness. If these quotas are used, the theory goes, no House will be stereotyped as a preppie House or a pre-med House, a jock House or a wonk House...
...were all very heartened by Bobby Riggs's win over Margaret Court two weeks ago," President Derek Bok, the head jock, said last night. "We figured it was time to put Radcliffe athletics on the map by giving them a shot...
...typical Harvard jock "what's been going on that's big in sports a Harvard this Spring" and the average response will be something like "Satch Sanders is the hew hoop coach, Don Gambril has deserted to Alabama, Princeton broke the varsity lightweight crew's winning streak, and the varsity heavyweights lost the Sprints again this year to Northeastern...