Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat is on to produce footage to accompany what some newsmen call "Mr. Haig's war." Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still photographers can't find...
Coming into the confrontation undefeated, untested, and the reigning eastern champs, the Crimson started the day slowly, with solid but unspectacular swims pushing it to the top of the 26 team pack. But in the final race--the 400 medley relay--the swimmers matched their point-total with some real momentum...
...pool swam fast (15 people qualified for Nationals two weeks down the road); co-favorites Princeton and Pitt jumped ahead of the pack--with Penn State close behind. Harvard solid fourth, and Yalie Sindee Simon shattered the meet record in the 200-yard backstroke with a smoking...
...other 21 teams at West Point aren't ready to concede the meet yet. But all admit it's an uphill battle to prevent another Crimson rout. LaSalle College--not a member of the EISL, and an unknown opponent for Harvard--is in a pack with Ivy foes Princeton, Columbia, and Yale gunning for the runner-up spot...
...Harvard runner immediately found himself boned in at the back of the pack, unable to pass. He surged toward the front in the gun lap to move from seventh to third, but was unable to catch William and Princeton's Mark Voit, who finished first and second respectively...