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...meet itself held no surprises. Potent Princeton, which demolished both Harvard and Yale in last week's tri-meet, whipped all competitors in a smooth display of strength and stamina. Placing all five of their runners in the top thirteen, they posted a remarkably low score...
...transfer of power in a dictatorship is seldom smooth. Yet it is probable that Juan Carlos' authority will not be challenged immediately. "Although many people in the opposition will not accept him because of his close association with Franco," observed Centrist Politician Marcelino Oreja, "most Spaniards want to give him a chance." No one knows for certain, however, whether Juan Carlos has the courage to break with the "bunker"-the group of hardline rightists who were Franco's most loyal backers and can be expected to oppose any realistic political reforms...
...last Saturday night Jimmy Cliff was giving himself to an audience neither young, punkish, nor unfamiliar with his music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave of his high-pitched voice, screaming in the abatement of its flow...
...sailing was not as smooth for her Radcliffe teammates, however, as the strongest 'Cliffe four finished back in fifth almost a minute behind the winning boat, Yale...
...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...