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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...
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...
Wolper's long career has produced more than 500 films and documentaries as varied as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. His television triumphs include Roots and The Thorn Birds. The opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics were his first public spectacles. But as an exercise in patriotism and promotion, Liberty Weekend is even more demanding...