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...needs only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only way anybody is likely to keep his score that low in next fall's Mexico City Olympics is by scheduling events simultaneously...
...next opponent--The Winnipeg Rowing Club--planned to run away from Harvard at the start and then try to hold on at the finish. The Canadians pulled mightily, but their American adversaries, rowing at a slower pace, would not be shaken...
...Winnipeg's early advantage shrank slowly, and by the three quarter mark, Canada found itself at a length disadvantage. Now it was the Harvards who had to hold on, and they did, easily, to win in the time of seven minutes flat...
...will grow to 4,500, life around Thompson is rugged. The thermometer in midwinter hovers around-50°F., reaches zero only in late March. Housing is critically short and expensive, schools operate on split shifts because of the growing student population, food has to be shipped in from Winnipeg 400 air miles away. Contact with the outside world is through old shows on cable TV, three-day-old newspapers, or an unreliable air service that does the best it can with aging DC-3s and DC-4s. Not surprisingly, in spite of weekly wages that start...
Following that victory the Crimson traveled to Winnipeg, Canada, for the Pan American Games. The obvious favorite at the meet, Harvard had little difficulty in defeating all comers and winning the Gold Medal...