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...contests. It might be nice if Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia lost today to put Harvard just one game out of first place. Don't bet your peanuts on it. Dartmouth, a team that seemed destined for mediocrity this fall, will back into its perennial image as Ivy champ...
Villanova will receive its stiffest competition from Penn and Penn State. Penn State defeated Villanova early in the season when several of the Wolverines were suffering from injuries and sickness. Greg Fredericks, IC4A three and six mile champ, is Penn State's prime candidate for top honors...
...Dickens'. At this early stage one can see, especially in the Rose Period, that urge toward nostalgic generalization that repeatedly crept into Picasso's art in later years. The circus performers in Family of Saltimbanques (8) are conceived in the manner of a Watteau fête champêtre, and Picasso apparently tried to rival the psychological tension of glance and gesture in that master's work; their fragile simplicity is idealized; it is a bruised, poor Arcadia, but Arcadia still, inhabited by a species of post-industrial Noble Savage...
...amateur power struggle that has long plagued tennis, six of the top professionals -Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, Cliff Drysdale and Andres Gimeno-declined to enter the tournament. Margaret Court Smith, the defending women's champion, could not come because she is pregnant. Wimbledon Champ Evonne Goolagong, the 20-year-old Australian aborigine sensation, said she had decided to take a rest. Then, in the first round, unseeded Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia eliminated another big name when he upset top-seeded John Newcombe. After that Chris Evert, the 16-year-old schoolgirl who captured the fancy...
...about as exciting as the late, late, late show. Ellis made menacing noises and Ali tried to work up his customary public fury over his opponent, but the end was inevitable. Ali won easily in the twelfth round. "There was no use hitting him any more," said the former champ. "He's a family man with children...