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...that the Harvard men's swimming team gunning for a fifth consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championship is a depleted squad surpasses the most complete understatement. But competing without the services a head coach, a captain and potential All-American, and a University record-holding sprinter, the Crimson has jumped to a 64 point lead at the U.S. Naval Acadamy, site of this year's competition...
...equipment is better," says Warmerdam, "but so are the athletes. It's a combination." Just as the pole vaulter himself is a combination: sprinter, weight lifter, gymnast. He is characteristically happy. "Because," says Warmerdam brightly, "it is just a fun thing...
...have no excuse." Yale Coach Frank Keefe said afterwards, refusing to lament the absence of top sprinter Sharon Veitz and top distance swimmer Courtney Ellis. "We weren't missing anyone who isn't on the team." he added. President Bok's daughter Victoria also missed the meet because of strep throat...
...Regans father was something of a sprinter before he emigrated from Ireland, running the 220 in 22.5 seconds, "on the grass, in bare feet," and his seven children all pursued various athletic interests. Andy began running outdoor track as a high school freshman, added indoor track to his schedule as a sophomore, and by his junior year had become a year-round runner...
Ursula K. Le Guin's novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Beginning Place, have made her the hottest name in contemporary scifi. The Compass Rose (Harper & Row; $14.95) shows her less a miler than a sprinter. The 20 stories reveal a versatile and far-ranging mind: one tale concerns two research scientists' attempt to decipher the writing of ants; another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended...