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Freeman's win came after four straight defeats for the Crimson, two of which were technical falls (15 point decisions) against 126-lb. Bernardo Feliciano and 134-lb. Jeff Pellatier. 142-lb. Chris Thorn suffered a pin and 118-lb. freshman Joel San Pedro dropped an 11-3 decision...
Later, in the sweet last light of the afternoon, a lion prowls in lion- colored grasses and vanishes into the perfect camouflage -- setting off for the hunt, alert, indolent and somehow abstracted, as cats are. A rhinoceros disappears: the eye loses it among gray boulders and thorn trees. The rhino becomes a boulder...
...visitor came first to the enk'ang of Moses' older brother Joseph, who, surrounded by children and dogs and friends, strode out from the boma -- a tall thorn-and-cedar enclosure, the feudal African fortress against lions and leopards -- to meet him. Joseph was smaller and more delicately boned than Moses. He had the fine, intelligent head of a Talmudic scholar, the visitor decided, an Ethiopian head, a fastidious head, given to complex distinctions. Joseph and the visitor set out in the evening light to walk across the hills to Moses' boma. Joseph wore a handsome red blanket hung over...
Freshman Chris Thorn (134-1b), wrestling in his first matches of the year, dropped a three-point decision at Princeton and lost against at Penn Saturday despite two solid efforts...
...alas, no rose is without a thorn. Some have suggested the rose is somehow too genteel, too proper to be the American symbol. Much better the rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign...