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VAUGHN originally wrote Only Victims as a doctoral thesis at USC, but it is hard to believe that it got through any faculty readings. The book is almost totally unedited for style and substance. His sentences are vintage Timeese, reeling this way and that, incorporating half a dozen half-formed thoughts into six lines, leaving the reader gasping for breath. Vaughn devotes almost all of his book to factual recountings of Committee hearings, going through day after day of testimony. Only Victims is at the same time fascinating and frustrating, for he never looks from the trees to the forest...
...freestyle finals, Jerry Heindereich of SMU, seeded first but only the sixth fastest qualifier, blew past everybody in the outside lane to win with a record-setting time of 1:38.35, leading two USC swimmers under the old American and NCAA standard...
...final event of the evening, the USC 800-yd. freestyle relay team of McCleskey, Tyrell, McBreen, and McConica shattered the American and NCAA record with the time of 6:38.63. The splits were 1:40.3, 1:40.1, 1:39.9, and 1:38.3, and that is moving...
...medley relay final turned into a wild affair, with USC winning in 3:23:11. Three teams were bunched within .1 seconds of each other as SMU took second in 3:23:19, and Indiana, fourth with...
...committee went into one of Harvard's patented nationwide searches. Rumors of possible choices included just about every big name coach in the U.S., including George Haines. Indiana's Doc Counsilman, Long Beach's Don Gambril, and USC's Peter Dayland. The list was whittled down, coaches flown in for interviewing, and the committee came down to their final two prospects--Merritt and Gambril. The vote was 4-3 for Benn, nevertheless Gambril was hired as Harvard's new head swimming coach. Baron Pittenger described what happened this way. "Undergraduates on a selection committee will always choose the known over...