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With 500 meters to go, Radcliffe had open water on the others. The Tigers, half a length back on B.U., began to paw at the Terrier lead. In a gutsy 400-meter long sprint, Princeton clawed relentlessly through B.U., taking a second-place finish and a chunk off Radcliffe's victory margin...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Jimmy Jewel), whose last laugh seems to have long been buried in the creases of his face. As his pupils sprint apprehensively through their routines -ethnic, absurd one liners, godawful -Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A real comedian dares to see what his listeners shy away from, fear to express. A joke releases the tension, but a true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...
With 30 strokes to go, the windless Crimson started a valiant sprint and pulled ahead of the Cadets. On the last stroke, another Crimson J.V. caught a crab...
...that the once-crowded Democratic field really shapes up as a two-man race. He expects the nominee to be Hubert Humphrey if the convention becomes deadlocked. But increasingly, he and his aides are paying attention to Jimmy Carter as a possible adversary in November, particularly if he can sprint far enough ahead of the Democratic pack in the primary tests ahead...
...with gusto, Colleen O'Connor, 24, and Jim Millns, 27, won a bronze medal in ice dancing. In speed skating, a University of Wisconsin music student, Dan Immerfall, 20, picking up where Sheila Young had left off the week before, won an unexpected bronze in the 500-meter sprint...