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Glen Cohen, the British Olympian running for Boston University, broke his own GBC record in the quarter mile, shaving half a second off with a 48.67, while teammates John Wilson, Mike Ferrari, Jeff Smith and Bob Danville won the two-mile, 600, 60-yd. dash and hurdles, respectively...
...most competitive Harvard-Princeton individual rivalry will probably resume in the 200 freestyle. Tiger senior Andy Saltzman nipped Crimson Olympian Bobby Hackett in this event last year at Easterns to earn himself a tie, with Hackett, for that meet's high point trophy...
What 1972 Olympian founded the Eliot House Jimmy Fund Show...
...serving life terms, is housed in A-block, the prison's maximum-security wing. Papadopoulos, now 60, whom the prison guards at first timidly referred to as "the President," resides on the second floor together with mem bers of his old regime. He conducts him self like an "Olympian god," the book says, treating his former subordinates with condescension, electing to dine in regal solitude. For a time, he kept up a correspondence with some of his former girl friends. That did not, however, stop his wife from trying to smuggle him a ration of cognac in fruit-juice...
Alone among public institutions, the U.S. Supreme Court has remained an Olympian myth: nine sages in black robes, unelected, unreviewable, pronouncing the last word on the law. Throughout its 190-year existence, the court's decision-making process has enjoyed a special immunity from public scrutiny. Even during the '70s, in the post-Watergate era of full disclosure, its white marble temple stood as a sanctuary, its inner workings Washington's last well-kept secret...