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...consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands, at least, it was a powerful union...
...seemed as if the good times would go on forever. As the price of fuel soared through the 1970s, the economies of oil-rich regions, from Texas and Oklahoma to Wyoming and Alaska, exploded. The frantic growth fed on itself: in Tulsa, Houston and Denver, skylines seemed to sprout overnight. The new wealth was intoxicating, making giddy millionaires out of young geologists, and inspiring dentists to become oil barons. Says Texas Historian T.R. Fehrenbach: "Oil was a big hot flash of money...
...night's biggest drama occured in the 50-yd. freestyle when defending champion Randy Sprout of Cornell injured his knee during the start. When two swimmers were sent into the water to rescue him, Brown's Bill Barr, swimming in the next lane, protested and the race was ordered re-swum...
Under a counter-protest by Army's Coll Haddon, who swam in the other lane adjacent to Sprout without difficulty, the decision was later overturned and the race declared official with Haddon the winner in 20.44 seconds. Harvard's Keith Kaplan finished in a three-way tie for second...
Today's 50 freestyle race will showcase Cornell's Randy Sprout, who last year set the current meet record of 20.21 seconds in the event. Sprout also won the 100 free and copped the Phil Moriarity Award, given annually to the high point scorer of the Championships...