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...goes according to plan, Harvard will compete in the eastern NCAA qualifying rounds. Hansen says although the tougher line-up of teams may make the squad's record (10-7 last year) "suffer a little," the club-turned-team can use the opportunity for self-education...
Aside from a tougher schedule--and the daily four-mile runs and two-mile swims the coach will require--varsity status means that the University can start to recruit better players. In the past, Pike explains, it was hard to bring in all-Americans, who knew that because Harvard only had a club, they could never compete on NCAA qualifying squads...
...clocked a 4:58 mile as a junior in high school, and Kris Russell, who captured the Connecticut state cross country title last year, as two of the strongest runners. Also, Chelmsford's Pat French and Miami's Eva Anderson could help the Crimson in a league that gets tougher each year...
...dramatized the change by making it a Presidential Directive. Brzezinski was the chief advocate of the move, while Brown is thought to have favored keeping the policy an internal Pentagon matter. A number of critics believe that Carter wants to publicize the matter because he needs to appear tougher on defense is sues to blunt criticism from G.O.P. Nominee Ronald Reagan. Says Herbert Scoville Jr., former CIA deputy director for research and now a strong advocate of arms reduction: "They're playing politics with the thing." Observes former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "I do not believe that...
...nation's airlines are engaged in their greatest aerial combat ever. It is also their most costly. With cut-rate fares and fierce overcompetition taking the place of missiles and machine guns, the airlines are battling for survival in an ever tougher market. They have become so intent on shooting down one another "that they seem to have forgotten how to make money. Normally late spring and summer are the peak periods for airline profits. Not so this year. Last week as many of the nation's major airlines released their financial results for the second quarter...