Word: olympian
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...thus producing the memorable sight of the two skippers treading water and shaking hands. Yet the end of the 21st cup defense was only a beginning. What used to be a private competition between the U.S. and its English-speaking cousins (Canada, Britain, Australia) is becoming an event of Olympian proportions. As of last week, a tentative line-up for the 1973 race included two challengers from France, Australia and Britain, and one each from West Germany, Canada and Italy. And who will sail for the defense? The victorious Intrepid syndicate lost no time announcing that it will make...
Yale, though it left Olympian John Nelson in New Haven to prepare for the AAU Meet, easily repeated as Eastern champion. Princeton was second, and Dartmouth was a close third...
...Harvard may score will in the 500-free with Greg Huff, Powlison, and perhaps Krause. Yale Olympian John Nelson, the best distance free-styler in the East, is apparently passing up the Easterns to prepare for the AAU Championships...
Powlison swimming the 200 free for the first time this year. tied the Harvard record of 1:47.5 held by Mark Shrout 68 while finishing second behind Olympian John Nelson...
Before his appointment in 1953, Classical Scholar Pusey had spent nine years as the easygoing but highly principled president of Lawrence College (800 students) in Appleton, Wis. At Harvard, his persistence became a flaw. Long admired for integrity, he was eventually criticized for Olympian remoteness...