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Rechul, who also took fourth at last week's Ivy, proved a formidable foe in the heavyweight division. Easily overtaking his opponents in the first two rounds 16-1 and 8-1, Rechul continued his success in the quarters, where he defeated Sam Holloway of Kutztown, 5-2. However, after falling in the semis, 4-1 to Steve Mocco, Rechul lost a tough overtime bout to East Stroudsburg's Rich Koehler to 11-9 to finish fourth...
...Then yesterday, a tired Harvard squad took down a much-improved Columbia team (1-1, 1-1), headed by Olympic gold medalist Christina Teuscher...
Those statements came in the form of ousting individual Ivy champs in their best events. Gustafsson began by downing defending champ Cowan in the 500-freestyle with a time of 5:01.06, and Murphy and Fraser took her lead, as both defeated former champ Judy Koonstra in the 100-butterfly at 57.06 and 57.26, respectively...
After Guy Barton, 56, retired last year from his job as a public school administrator in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., he took some computer classes at a local college, brushed up on his cooking skills at the Culinary Institute of America and began golfing more regularly with friends. His wife Marge, 55, a fifth-grade teacher, won't be eligible to retire until next June...
...easily resolved, however. Bernie had decided to take some of his firm's clients with him when he retired, and work out of the house a couple of days a week. He set up a home office in an extra bedroom, outfitting it with a new computer. His files took up a closet that had once been filled with Betty's clothes, and his work frequently spilled out of the bedroom onto the dining-room table. But Betty and Bernie eventually worked out the space issue with a redesign of the office, adding an extra desk to keep papers from...