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...disqualification in the 400 medley relay threw the proverbial monkey wrench into the Harvard aqua-machine on Thursday, but the Crimson swimmers overcame the setback yesterday to surge to a 264-248 lead over second place Princeton at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swim League Championships being held at Princeton...
...would not have to think hard to find some motivation for throwing a wrench into this year's Dartmouth Winter Carnival. This year's theme is the "Winterful World of Disney," honoring the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney productions. Now that Walt himself is dead, his genius has evaporated from the conglomerate, Walt's old yes-men are trying to figure out ways of remaking Mary Poppins and failing. In any case, the Carnival does not have enough snow to ski at Dartmouth. Howard Chivers, manager of the Skiway, said "this certainly is the worst winter for ski conditions...
...economic and political reality suffered yet another wrench when President Nixon dismantled the Great Society programs that contained provisions for child development and family services...
...beating up an old lady, risking injury to the thug or some innocent passerby in the fracas. Or like a policeman pursuing a homicidal maniac at 100 miles per hour, knowing the chase could end in an accident dangerous to unknowing uninvolved pedestrians. Or like a mechanic inserting a wrench into the gears of an airplane loaded with bombs, aware that he and the bombadier and the pilot might die so that the innocent children the bombs would have killed could live...
Nothing, though, brought the message home for most Americans as did President Nixon's earlier call to voluntarily cut back auto speeds to 50 m.p.h. That was a wrench to a nation as devoted as the U.S. is to horsepower and highway. Compliance has been spotty...