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Dartmouth had only one champion at last year's meet--Dennis Webster in the 800 meter run, but team depth allowed them to come away with a comfortable winning margin of sixteen points against second-place Princeton...
...cold, gloomy late November in 1969. Clinton, a Rhodes scholar from Hot Springs, Ark., fed sixpence and shillings into the meter of the electric fire in order to warm himself. He sat at a rickety table lighted by a gooseneck lamp and worked on a letter about Vietnam, moral principles and the draft...
Campaign workers with signs compete for street corners. A Honda with a pencil-shaped "Write In Ralph Nader" sign strapped to the roof is parked in front of a meter that reads "Time Expired." On the sidewalk, a local television reporter interviews a silver-haired man, who says into the camera, "Harkin isn't stiff; he seems like a relaxed, regular guy. He betrays a certain barnyard roughness around the edges, I suppose, but he can communicate with the everyday American...
...sense, it's probably necessary to maintain one's sanity at the Games. It would, after all, be unfortunate to waste a trip to Montreal or Los Angeles cooped up in a row of hot seats given little to watch but an occasional dash or 10,000 meter walking race. Kahn's solution to all this highly sanctioned monotony is to keep an alert eye which is ready to wade through the crap and focus on the human quirks and foibles pervading the Games. In a piece on the 1984 Summer Games in L.A., for example, he directs our attention...
There were, however, a few bright spots for the Crimson. Tanya Weidinger and women's Co-Captain Rita Raju both set school records in the 500 meter dash and the triple jump, respectively...