Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greg Buckingham of U.S.C. pulled the biggest upset of the swimming season as he defeated Yale's Olympic Gold Medalist, Don Schollander in the 200-yard freestyle by six inches in the NCAA Swimming Championships at East Lansing, Michigan. Buckingham, a lanky junior, also won the 500 yard freestyle Thursday and will try to add a third win in the 1650 yard freestyle today...
...Havens, also of U.S.C., set a spectacular record in the last leg of the 400 yard freestyle relay. He swam the last hundred yards in 44.8 seconds, the first time anybody in history has ever swum a hundred yards under 45 seconds...
Ross Wales of Princeton, with a second place finish in the 200 yard butterfly was the only other high finisher from the Ivy League Friday. He finished second with a time of 1:53.2, 1.2 seconds behind the winner, Carl Robie of Michigan. In spite of its great effort today, U.S.C. trails Stanford by a point, 172-171. Yale is in sixth place with a total of 88 points. Harvard has yet to win a point, but with Murphy in the diving today, Harvard may finally turn in a point-getting performance...
Hanging out by the school yard gate...
...purchase, not to acquire but to purchase and consume, to be swarthed in a tissue of things. Some desire to associate with the larger people at the Club 47; others follow along. It is not Harvard that sucks them in. They seldom traipse into the Yard, never go below Mt. Auburn Street. As they do not aspire to the College they do not atempt to understand or revere it. The physicality of Harvard Square is to their taste, the flood of objects, people, shoes in store windows, neon signs half put out and grimy behind the light, candy boxes wrapped...