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...school has ever won as many Ivy crowns, with Princeton's eight in 1976-77 the closest runner-up to Harvard's dozen this year. The Crimson men claimed nine league crowns, more than all of the other Ivy schools combined. Harvard's women's teams, which the previous year captured an all-time high four titles, took three last year and came close to a few others...
...despite the stronger-than-expected economic recovery, they are now occurring at a worrisome rate. Across the U.S., more than one bank a week is failing. By year's end, the number of failures, now 35, should easily beat the post-Depression record of 43 set in 1940. (Runner-up: 1982 with 42 failures...
...museum knew, from reproduction, one painting of Wood's, American Gothic: he with the pitchfork and faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front of that white frame house. For the mass audience it was the most famous painting in the world. The runner-up was Leonardo's Last Supper; and after that, what? The Mona Lisa? The Washington portrait by Peale? It hardly matters; the pre-eminence of American Gothic as a popular icon has not been challenged in several generations, since Wood painted it in 1930. Its fame sank Wood...
...Council on Foreign Relations considered 68 candidates, including Leslie Gelb, the national-security correspondent for the New York Times, and Stephen Rosenfeld, the Washington Post's deputy editorial-page editor. Both withdrew. The runner-up: James Chace, the magazine's managing editor since 1970. Said Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign Relations: "Hyland has outstanding experience, intellect and objectivity...
...distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline Gareau of Canada: "The 2:20 marathon is the next mark for women now. We're getting nearer and nearer...