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With another season of intercollegiate squash in the record books, an unusual distribution of squash power throughout the Intercollegiate League has become apparent. On the basis of the last three months' play, Harvard emerged as the best nine-man team in college squash, Yale's national team (five-men) champions as the best five-man team, and Princeton's Steve Vehslage--National Intercollegiate Singles Champion--became college squash's best one-man team...
Although Navy actually won the Intercollegiate League title, it is difficult to call them the best nine-man squad in college squash because of the fact that their success seems to be more contingent on the home court advantage than is usually the case. On the other hand, Harvard showed throughout the season one of the most powerful, well balanced teams ever to play in intercollegiate competition...
...nine-man team level, despite the loss of captain Charlie Hamm, Pete Lund, Davis, and Wally Stimpson, the Crimson will probably retain its mastery. In brief, things should be back fairly close to normal next year at Hemenway Gymnasium, with only an individual champion lacking to make Harvard domination complete; this past season may have been the closest thing to a balance of power that Intercollegiate squash will see for quite some time...
...modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela (the hunter got the idea while stalking frogs last summer in the same area) to a nine-man botanical, oceanographic and archaeological assault by Cambridge on British Honduras...
Said he last week: "We will roll up our sleeves and do a damned good job." The peso promptly firmed to 9.2 to the dollar. One of the Nationals elected to Uruguay's nine-man ruling National Council of Government, Nardone will get his chance to serve as its chairman, which is equivalent to being President. But doughty old Luis Alberto de Herrera, after spending all his life trying to win the government for the Nationals, will not preside over the government. As one of the three minority members of the current council ruling Uruguay in place...