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...Harvard squad, the best in years, has compiled a 4-0 record this year, winning the last three by 9-0 shutouts. It will be led this weekend by Vic Niederhoffer, its captain and the third-ranked amateur in the country...
Just three years after he first picked up a squash racquet, Harvard's Vic Nieder-hoffer almost made the finals of the U.S. Open Squash Tournament in Buffalo Monday...
This was the new Hamlet of Franco Zeffirelli. Last year, in a choreography of flashing swords held like switchblades, the 28-year-old Italian director caused a transatlantic sensation by staging the Old Vic's final Romeo and Juliet as if it were an adaptation of West Side Story. This year, in a production that has become a Roman sellout, he has excised most of the melancholia from the melancholy Dane, replacing it with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn...
...almost decided on Duke; he even signed a "letter of intent" to accept a scholarship. But then he started rereading college catalogues-and decided that Princeton was brainier. "I don't want to end up as just Old Satin Shorts Bradley," he explained at the time. Duke Coach Vic Bubas only sighs and clutches his chest. "Every time I hear his name, I get a sharp pain right here...
Adair refused to throw away the second game. After watching Niederhoffer whittle down his 14-11 lead to 14-13, the Canadian dropped a shot in front of Vic to tie the match...