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Chris Cartensen is the best Dartmouth swimmer in middle distance freestyle, and he must win once or twice if his team is to subdue Harvard...
What is even more absurd is that Paul Katz, a Yale swimmer, competed in the Games with the NCAA's full approval. So Langer's and Yale's, persecution smacks strongly of pawn-pushing on the NCAA's part. And when the NCAA begins to exploit its members for its own selfish interests, it is time to seriously debate whether it has outlived its usefulness. By insisting that it will continue to keep Langer on its varsity squad, Yale hopes to provoke that debate, but unless the Ivics support Yale to the utmost- and that means withdrawal from the NCAA...
Things are back to normal at the pool, though one swimmer reported that the usually blue water is now green...
...swimmer, it's the Olympics or the English Channel. For an actor it is Hamlet. But for a coloratura soprano, the pinnacle and challenge was and is Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor. It is an opera whose trills, turns and top tones defy the deftest voices. The stilted dramaturgy of the libretto can reduce the most colorful actress to a drab cardboard gray...
...creatures are more aptly named. The crown-of-thorns, a large, reddish brown sea dweller, has as many as 21 arms, all covered with venomous spines that can temporarily paralyze a swimmer and provoke fits of vomiting. Known to biologists as Acanthaster planci, this sinister-looking, 2-ft.-wide starfish is an even greater menace to some of its tiny aquatic neighbors. It likes nothing better than to feed on the living coral reefs where it makes its home...