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...Wunderkinder who four years ago set the world record mark of 56.30 sec. For Matthes, a skinny (155 lbs.) six-footer, Montreal represents a last chance to add to his stockpile of seven Olympic medals, four of them gold, collected in 1968 and 1972. His challenger is John Naber, five years Matthes'junior, half a foot taller, 40 lbs. heavier and a record smasher himself. At last month's U.S. swim trials at Long Beach, Naber, a senior at U.S.C., toppled by 1.23 sec. the 200-meter backstroke world record of 2:01.87, held since 1973 by-that...
...backstroke: Mike Stamn, the top backstroker in the nation the last few years, will be challenged by John Naber of USC. Wolfe finally broke the only Harvard record from the pre-Gambrill-Essick era, but he has very limited scoring potential here...
...back: Naber of USC broke Stamn's NCAA record, going under the magical 1:50 barrier for the first time. These two will fight it out for first here. Wolfe came up with the surprise performance of the Easterns but it is doubtful he can score...
...crowd grew impatient, and the police pressed the white-haired parish priest, Father Josef Naber, to tell the people what had happened. It was true, he said. "Christ has relieved Therese of her pains on the 28th anniversary of the date when she first experienced the agonies of the cross." Beyond that, Father Naber admitted later, he was just as bewildered as anyone else...
...next morning the Washington was plowing northward through the fog to make a scheduled call at Galway, Eire. Below, 150 of her Catholic passengers were on their knees at early Mass conducted by the Rev. Henry D. Naber of Cincinnati when suddenly all the ship's sirens and alarms cut loose. As the consecration had just been reached, every Catholic remained kneeling until its conclusion. Then they joined other Washington passengers rushing in night clothes to the deck. From his cabin to the bridge hurried the Washington's worried captain, Harry Manning...