Word: records
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first race of the evening, the 400 medley relay, provided the blue print for the rest of the meet. Four Harvard teams beat the top Bruin team, with the Crimson foursome of Don Kidd, Dave Mainen, Paul Watson and Albert Wolf winning the race and setting a new meet record with a time...
Senior standout Paul Watson joined Tull and Williams as a multiple winner. Watson took the top spot in the individual medley and also narrowly defeated teammate Chris Kovacs for first place in the 200 backstroke. In addition, Kidd barely missed a meet record in the 100 butterfly...
Rounding out the strokes for the Crimson was perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the the evening in the 200 breaststroke. Australian Scott Hoy, returning from a two-year layoff, set a meet record, completing the race...
Above all, he wanted a Van Gogh. In 1987 he was the underbidder on Sunflowers, which fetched a record $39.9 million at Christie's in London. Then, as underbidder again, he just missed The Bridge at Trinquetaille, which sold for $20.2 million, also at Christie's, a few months later. So when he learned that Irises was coming up at Sotheby's in New York City in November of the same year, he decided to go the limit...
...four seasons as coach at the University of Notre Dame, Holtz has returned the school to the pinnacle of college football from which it had fallen in mortification under the earnest but inept Gerry Faust. Last year Holtz drove a young, tentative team to a 12-0 record and a national championship with a variation of the message that ugly ducklings can become beautiful swans if they work hard, love one another and believe they can be great. Holtz fervently believes that. He also devoutly embraces traditional values, specifically the importance of having on his side God, ferocious linebackers...