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...Arcy won the freshman meet in a time of 16.42 for the three-mile course. The score: Harvard 19, Penn 53, Columbia 66. The Quakers' Bob Rich was second, the Crimson's John Ogden third. Penn ace Roy Reisinger, leading near the end of the race, had a stitch and finished eighteenth...
...freshman team was no less impressive as it trounced its B.U. adversary by a perfect 15-50 score. John Ogden, who took first place against Cornell last Saturday repeated the performance yesterday. Robert Anschuetz managed to avoid getting a stitch this time out and finished a strong second. Other Yardling runners took third through ninth...
Hamlin, hampered by an inflamed Achilles tendon, was running third at the two-mile mark, when a stitch forced him to drop out of the race. As Crimson hopes plummeted--for a victory without Hamlin was impossible--Hamlin recovered and set out after the pack. He eventually finished seventh, in a courageous effort...
Recovering in European hospitals after dire prognoses: Spain's Matador Número Uno Antonio Ordóñez, 29, who stumbled over his muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed...
...past, RTF always has managed to answer its critics. Last year, when a hero had daydreamed about his maid and the camera subsequently showed every stitch of clothing falling away from her body, an RTF spokesman explained that the maid really wore flesh-colored, form-fitting underwear. When, in another film called L'Exécution, a nude woman ambled across the screen, RTF's defenders pointed out that she had kept her back to the camera. Some months ago, an irate citizen claimed his marriage had been broken up because an RTF cameraman had panned past...