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...good news came from Darlene Beckford, who won the 800-meter race at the AIAW championships in Pocatello, Idaho, Saturday, establishing herself as the top female collegiate half-miler in the country and becoming the first-ever Ivy League All-American in women's track. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Adam Dixon, fresh from a 1500-meter victory at the IC4As the previous weekend, supplied the bad news in placing an anti-climactic fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championships...
...amazing Maureen Gildea Comeback Story continued over the weekend as the sophomore miler chopped another nine seconds off her 1000-yd. split in the 1650 freestyle to set a new team record and become the only Crimson swimmer to qualify for the AIAWs...
Assistant coach Patti Cashman said last night that she expects today's performances to be better than the previous two days'. Among today's highlights will be sophomore miler Maureen Gildea's swim in the 1650-yd. freestyle--an event she is ranked sixth in, and which shestands a chance at winning...
...crux of the battle will center around the half mile event, coming in the latter half of the meet. Harvard's Martha Clabby and Eva Anderson give the tracksters a good shot at a one-two finish, but it seems that every team involved boasts a star half miler so the contest should be especially tight...
MERLE MILLER fell in love with Lyndon Johnson when he wrote this book. Lyndon: An Oral Biography is a collection of hundreds of interviews conducted by Miller or dredged from the files of the Johnson library. Miler has attempted a portrait of the man and his accomplishments by seeking out friends, family and aides--and the result is a paean to Lyndon Johnson, American folk hero. Johnson, from all accounts, was an overwhelmingly powerful and dominant man, who prided himself on his ability to manipulate people and situations. Some emanation of Johnson's spirit has gotten at Miller via these...