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Underscoring the contradictions of the American South, Alabama, the civil rights movement's most volatile battleground, will observe the third Monday in January as a dual holiday honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled...
Neither team could carry its momentum into the key dual meet against Yale, as the men fell by a score of 101-61 and the women 99-64. Senior Reed Bienvenu paced the men with his win in the 5,000-meter run—Harvard’s only victory on the track—while senior Eleanor Thompson did the work for the women by winning the 100-meter high hurdles...
...final dual meet of the year, with then-No. 16 Boston University and MIT, served as a bit of a tune-up for Eastern Sprints, as Radcliffe again swept every varsity race...
Harvard started out with a dual meet against Dartmouth and Cornell. The Crimson went in strong with several heralded freshmen—O’Connor, Jackie Pangilinan, Lindsay Hart and Samantha Papadakis—and won easily. Harvard crushed the opposition, winning 10-of-16 events with final scores...
...Crimson would then go on to swim in its biggest dual meet of the year against rivals Princeton and Yale. The Tigers had a seven-year unbeaten streak in Ivy competition, but Harvard laid it to rest. The Crimson won the meet, beating Princeton 203-116 and Yale...