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When Princeton arrived in Cambridge last weekend, it was the King of Eastern Swimming. The Tigers managed to slip past upstart Harvard and pretty much mauled everyone else last year to wrest away the championship of the Eastern Swim League from its traditional owners and take it back to New Jersey. But the wave of swimming fortune crested and broke too soon for the Tigers this year as their loss to the Crimson last weekend just about paved the way for Harvard to take the Easterns...
...Howard Hughes was the longest and most stupefyingly wasteful legal siege ever mounted. The suit was initiated in 1961 by the airline's banker-installed management to wrest control of TWA from Hughes-who owned 78% of its stock-and to compensate the company for huge losses suffered during his erratic rule. The case, played for stakes of half a billion dollars, never even came to trial. Yet it cost the litigants at least $20 million, and filled 694 feet of shelf space with legal documentation. The airline's attorneys prevailed, largely because of Hughes' pathological resistance...
...Harvard front, four law professors, with support from over half of the Law School faculty, wrote to President Bok at midweek to say that tourists might wrest west Cambridge from the University if plans to incorporate a museum with the library went through...
...WATER (ABC, Wednesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). The summer's nadir. Julie Harris and Richard Long battle various relatives and each other for the pickle-factory fortune of their crotchety, dying paterfamilias. Harris and Long struggle like a pair of flies in a glue pot trying to wrest laughs from lines about death and pickles...
Saturday wasn't really the kind of day you would choose to go paddling. And for the five teams that tried to wrest the winner's laurels from Radcliffe, it was a day that made them wish they had stayed...