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Hackett came back indeed. After negative splitting the 200-yd. freestyle (negative split means to swim the second 100 yards in a faster time than the first 100--a difficult task, as any swimmer will tell you), the prodigious freshman got to rest for as long as it took Malcolm Cooper to rocket back and forth across the pool before he swam the 200-yd. Individual Medley. He won that race, beating out Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle, in the very impressive time...
...crowd--ignited by Crimson coach Joe Bernal's rowdy pre-meet show, (featuring the Harvard Band), Canales' heroics, and Hackett's fabulous debut--got another treat when Harvard's Malcolm Cooper stepped up to the blocks...
...final 72-41 score was a near-perfect reversal of last year's 71-42 tally. Navy, who had shaved down for last year's contest, arrived hairy-legged to Saturday's meet, much to the disappointment of the revenge-crazed Crimson. Malcolm Cooper, whose times reveal just how psyched he was, lamented afterwards, "I'm really disappointed they didn't shave, because we would have burned 'em anyway...
...self-doubts, fears, vacillations, and failures which he reveals in a detached and slightly bemused tone. Plimpton's little guy lives at a more enduring level than rich or poor. Plimpton trying to gain entrance to Ali's restricted quarters, chatting with Hemingway, or catching flak from Malcolm X, is always the moved one and never the mover. He lands where the buffets of fate and more vigorous personalities may send him, and we sympathize...
...last words of their historical counterparts. Plimpton seems to be aiming at a readership more cultivated, perhaps, than the TV audience Paper Lion hit; readers who get their sports from the New York Times if not the New Yorker, who care about Plimpton's reactions to Hunter Thompson and Malcolm X as well as to Muhammad Ali--readers who, in fact, may more closely resemble the real Plimpton, affluent and Harvard educated, than they do his self-deprecating Mr. Average Joe persona...