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...believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...
...into the rodeo arena on the back of a bucking bronc, dismounted, jumped up onto a stage full of guitar-picking cowboys and broke into song: "Cowboys arn't easy to love and they're harder to hold. He'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold. Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis and each night begins a new day. If you don't understand him and he don't die young, he'll probably just ride away. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys..." The occasion for the rendition, tongue...
Princeton, which has won the meet for the last five years in a row, also dominated the 100-yd. breastroke and butterfly. In the breast, won by Dartmouth's Tom Whitaker in 58.92, two Princeton men made the finals--John Christensen (second) and Chuck Hector (sixth). The lone Harvard qualifier in that event was Tuomo Kerola, who finished eighth...
...five, Mitch Reese also went the full distance, ending up on the wrong side of the 3-2 score, and registering the lone Crimson loss...
...heaven's name on the lone occasion in four years when I would have wanted to be at courtside was I off watching Humphrey Bogart films...