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Pavilion in a Ravine. At first, Saari nen had proposed a concrete building, but the coolness of Deere executives led him back to the expressionist truth of architecture: the building ought to symbolize its purpose. So Saarinen chose steel, the material of plows and tractors, to "reflect the big, forceful, func tional character of its products...
Clearly, the meet's highlights were the performances by Jim Seubold and Australian Neville Hayes: Hayes snapped the national freshman mark in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:00.5, and Seubold took 1.2 seconds off Roy Saari's old national record of 1:51.0 in the 200-yard freestyle. Hockey Harvard 3 St. Paul's 0 Harvard 5 Brown 3 Basketball Harvard 68 Bentley 63 Harvard 77 Exeter 59 Wrestling Harvard 14 Princeton 14 Fencing Harvard 9 Princeton...
...unofficial NCAA freshman records, may have assuaged slightly the pain of Brooks' first loss to Princeton. Australian record holder Neville Hayes destroyed Bob Bennett's old mark in the 200-yd. butterfly with a 2:00.5 effort. In the 200 freestyle, Jim Seubold's 1:49.7 easily bettered Roy Saari's old record...
...excitable out of water as he is exciting in it, Schollander practically swam every race in Tokyo. While an 18-year-old University of Southern California sophomore named Roy Saari churned through the seemingly endless laps of the 1,500-meter freestyle, Schollander leaped crazily along the edge of the pool, waving a white towel and yelling "Get going!" For 24 lengths, Saari lagged sadly behind the lap times set by Australia's John Konrads when he posted the world record of 17:11 three years ago. Then Saari spotted Schollander's frenzied cheerleading out of the corner...
...mark of 3:36.1. Carl Robie, an 18-year-old University of Michigan freshman, seemed all arms and shoulders as he powered his way to a 2:08.2 world butterfly record over 200 meters. By the time the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team of Schollander, McDonough, Townsend and Saari crouched and sprang from the starting platform on the final day, a feeling of inevitability had settled around the race. Sure enough, the result was another world mark: 8:03.7. The overwhelming U.S. team margin: 63 points, to Japan's 22. And still there was no stopping the Americans...