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Although Ezra and Ben-Shacher were pleased with their performances, senior Co-Captain Marty Clark felt that he did not perform at his peak last weekend. Seeded third, Clark exited much earlier than he would have liked to, losing in the quarterfinals to Roberto Rosalies of Mexico...
...more talent than Cornell and we were a lot deeper," senior Ed Owens said. "Cornell is also not a great team and they've been having morale problems lately. We're also at the point of the season where we're rested and shaved and we've started to peak...
...black youngster from segregated Richmond, Virginia, whose ticket to worldwide renown and recognition was punched in a sport that was almost the definition of a game for whites. More than seem reasonable for a man who suffered the first of several heart attacks at age 36, while at the peak of his considerable game. More than seemed attainable to stunned observers who wept with him in April of last year when he announced (under the pressure of a pending newspaper story) that he had AIDS -- probably the result of a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation...
What Fisher calls the "four-year itch" shows up unmistakably in today's divorce statistics. In most of the 62 cultures she has studied, divorce rates peak around the fourth year of marriage. Additional youngsters help keep pairs together longer. If, say, a couple have another child three years after the first, as often occurs, then their union can be expected to last about four more years. That makes them ripe for the more familiar phenomenon portrayed in the Marilyn Monroe classic The Seven-Year Itch...
These swimmers will be racing at their peak., striving for a final triumph in a season of triumph and turmoil...