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...junior, the 6-ft. 2-in. 170-pounder snatched top honors at the IC4As with the bar at 16-ft. 6-in. His teammates later voted him captain of this year's squad...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Geoff Stiles: Pole Vaulter With Style | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

Mitchelson is no lectern pounder; even attorneys who have opposed him concede that he is unfailingly "pleasant and easygoing." Clients who visit him in his office are sometimes surprised to find him dressed in a bathrobe or riding britches, conducting an imaginary orchestra as a hi-fi system plays a favorite Verdi opera. He is also a Shakespeare buff who once spent an afternoon trading quotes from the Bard with Marlon Brando as the two worked out a custody settlement over Brando's child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Paladin of Paramours | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...seasons past, Harvard covets the dominating 'big guy,' but as in the past, they don't quite have him. The forward front line is solid with three 6-7 frosh--Dave Coatsworth, Kirk Mundy, and Florian Homm. 'Coats' is a burly 230-pounder, Mundy an All-Stater from North Dakota, while Homm hails from West Germany, where he played on the Junior National Basketball team prior to earning All-Michigan honors as an exchange student...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Hoop: A New Look and a Tough Slate | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

After a 6-1 loss to UMass, senior Tony Pucillo earned a victory in his second match of the evening. B.U.'s Bob Eagleton illegally slammed Pucillo to the canvas in their match, separating the 158-pounder's shoulder, and Pucillo was awarded the victory on the foul. He is lost to the team indefinitely...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Matmen Fall to B.U., UMass in Debut | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...best in the Miami area. If anyone could find the big broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near by: a 300-pounder landed off Fort Lauderdale ... a three-hour fight in progress with a gargantuan swordfish off Key Largo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking the Broadbill | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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