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Exhibiting no ill effects from his recent bout with the flu, Hackett led the race for 150 yards before defending champion Brian Goodell assumed command...
...Greacen was super consistent today, and that's what you have to do to be in contention in a meet like this," diving, coach John Walker said. "The field in this contest was at least as good as any in recent years...
Hackett is a strong candidate to win the 200-yd. freestyle because his shorter distance swimming has improved considerably in recent years. His improvement culminated in his phenomenal 200-meter relay split on the world record-breaking United States national 800-meter relay team this past summer...
...movies--the best, even, of this limited, specialized kind--than Carpenter may be capable of, but Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are such neat packages of self-acknowledged hokum that it is difficult to resent or condescend to them. Compared to the slackness and swaggering middlebrow pretension of recent thrillers like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Last wave, they are remarkable for their stringent suspensefulness, their fundamental lack of conceit, the inventiveness of numerous details and situations, and a sharp, reverberant visceral twang...
Goodell outsprinted Hackett at the end of the grueling 1500-meter freestyle for the gold medal at Montreal in 1976 and whipped him in a two-man dual for the 1650-yd. freestyle crown at the NCAAs last year. Hackett won the most recent skirmishes between the two this past summer though, touching ahead of the UCLA sophomore in the 200, 400, and 1500-meter freestyles at the outdoor national championships...