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...held by a pre-Don Gambril swimmer-faile to fall for fresh man Tom Wolf in the afternoon trails as he swam slightly off his best time with a 54.96 clocking. As it turned out, Wolfs 54.21 opening leg on the Crimson's 400-yd. medley relay which took twelfth on Thursday night was the closest he came to breaking Dan Kobick's record...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Adds Two Points in NCAA Swimming | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Red Sea Invasion | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...play golf, especially on Ladies' Day at the Everglades Club, but she gets "caught up in" the (strictly ladies) luncheon and (mixed) dinner party circuit. "There are almost too many parties," complains Mrs. Meadows. "I was recently out eleven nights in a row. I canceled out on the twelfth, and there's a luncheon every day. Some people have nothing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Nice, Friendly Place to Visit | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...sentimental movie fan it seemed something like a nightmare: Liz and Dick Burton were getting a divorce in public-and on TV at that. No fear. The TV split was for one of ABC's quickie nighttime movies, Divorce; His-Divorce; Hers. It was the Burtons' twelfth flick together since it all began on the set of Cleopatra eleven years ago. Stories from the set made it clear that the Burtons had considerable trouble sticking to the soapy script, with such forgettable lines by jilted wife Liz as, "You'll never be able to give as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 12, 1973 | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...will be facing a Big Red team that have not lost since dropping a surprising 4-0 Ivy League game to Harvard October 21 Cornell topped previously unbeaten Long Island University by an identical 32 score Monday for the New York regional crown. It was the Rig Red's twelfth victory of the season against three losses. The Crimson's season mark now stands...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Plays in Quarterfinals Today | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

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