Word: winner
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Capua's race relations deteriorate. The compulsive winner becomes a perpetual loser-until the day of the big one, the Indy 500. Director James Goldstone even manages to make a wreck of the most celebrated American auto race. Progress is as circular and unsurprising as the movement of a minute hand; the script is reminiscent of a radio play, with an announcer booming: "It's a different Frank Capua out there today!" When the film casts a sociological eye, it is toward such riddled targets as baton-twirling teeny-boppers and accident-hungry spectators...
Finally, the Lampoon should reconsider retiring the "Tedium is the Medium" citation when Tim Hunter (two-time winner for the worst students film) "graduates." The award is part of a great tradition and will prove increasingly relevant in future years as youth continues to foist the fruit of its Bolexes and Bell-and-Howells on an affluent and unsuspecting public. Hunter, an irritatingly egocentric critic and an excessive film-maker, can nonetheless sleep secure in the knowledge that even less able juveniles are pointing their cameras through forbidden windows. The Lampoon, if it ever decides to get it together...
Fireballing Fernando Gonzalez was the winner of that game, but said that the defense deserved most of the credit. Jim Fabiani, one of the most versatile athletes in the House, smashed a roller halfway to third base to start Quincy's four run rally in the last inning, and Eliot's errors and a single by catcher Bob Teske did the rest. Luck, Not skill...
Other individual winners in the meet were Quincy's Gerald Brock, whose time of 4:33.0 in the mile run was only 41.9 seconds shy of the world record; Dunster's Stuart Herro, winner of the 60-yard hurdles; Eliot's Patrick Shipstead in the 440-yard run; Dudley's Bruce Jones in the 880-yard run; and Leverett's Doug Griswold in the shot...
...heavyweight class, Harvard and Penn should have little strain in qualifying for the finals. The Crimson will race in the second heat against Brown. Wisconsin, Columbia, and B.U. The winner and runner-up in each of the three heavyweight heats makes the finals...