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Since their inception in 1951, the quadrennial Pan-American Games have served as a kind of Olympic warmup session for strong U.S. teams. American athletes have so dominated the Pan-Am Games, in fact, that International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage began to wonder whether they might be too good for their own good. Shortly before the opening of the sixth Pan-Am Games in Cali, Colombia, the 83-year-old Brundage observed: "It doesn't look good for the U.S. to be collaring three-quarters of the Pan-Am medals. It's not good for sports...
...victory, which served as a warmup for important games this week against Brown and Princeton, may have been costly. Late in the first quarter, goalie John Cosentino scrambled behind the net and reinjured a knee which was operated on last summer. Cosentino strained a ligament and is now on crutches. He will almost surely miss the Brown game here Wednesday...
...varsity lacrosse team faces Williams at 2 p.m. today on the Business School Field in a warmup for Wednesday's important game against Brown...
...Warmup for the 1970s. Cincinnati is a river city of long hot summers and long-suffering fans, whose loyalty has been rewarded by only four pennants and two World Series victories in the 94 years since they joined the National League. But everyone in town agrees that the long lackluster century was just a warmup for the 1970s. By playing .700 ball into the last of July, the Cincinnati Reds have made a farce out of the league's western division race. Last week they led second-place Los Angeles by 11½ games. Third-place Atlanta...
...impressiveness, Amsterdam's argument may be just a warmup. Observers of the court believe it to be so closely divided on the capital-punishment issue that it will decide the Maxwell case on a technicality and wait for Justice Blackmun before tackling the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. In that event, Amsterdam almost certainly will be back on behalf of another condemned...