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...most noteworthy swims of the day came from sophomore Maureen Gildea in the 1000-yard freestyle. Gildea--who was last year's Ivy League mile champ--has been swimming three-a-day workouts recently in an effort to overcome a frustrating knee condition that has sidelined her a great deal this season, and has consequently caused her times to rise drastically...
...second doctor if they wanted their health insurance plans to pay for operations. In 19% of the cases, would-be patients got negative second opinions, and nearly two-thirds of them did not have surgery. Among the procedures frequently deemed unnecessary: bunion removal, hysterectomies, prostate surgery and knee operations. Judging by the experience of one union's health fund, every $1 spent for fees and administrative expenses in the program should save $2.63 in sick pay and hospital costs. Says McCarthy: "Every time a person was referred for a second opinion, the sponsoring fund saved...
...Felicitas is knee-deep in the age. She has left her mother's house in Brooklyn to study classics at Columbia. There she is seduced by a knavish political science professor of the Herbert Marcuse persuasion; she moves into the apartment he shares with two other women and a toddler named Mao; she is encouraged by her lover to sleep with a downstairs neighbor; she becomes pregnant by one or the other and heads for the abortionist's waiting room...
...aquawomen have not yet forgotten the results of that disastrous relay. Competing with a team of injured swimmers, including Terri Frick--who had just dislocated her knee in the previous event--Harvard fought courageously but fell short of the win by several tenths of a second...
Other swimmers who are favored to add crucial points to the Harvard tally are sophomores Maureen Gildea, Terri Frick and Kathy Davis. Recovering from a debilitating series of knee operations, Gildea's distance free times have been dropping steadily since the beginning of January. Although she is not at the same level she was when she took the Ivy League mile crown last year, Gildea will probably be in good shape for the Ivies and Easterns...