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...Mel Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...
Vanderpool-Wallace spearheaded a clean sweep in the field events for Harvard-Yale. In other field events, Adrian Tew easily won the javelin with a 215 ft. 5 in. heave, Dick Gilbane took the discus at 149 ft. 6 in., Mel Embree went 6 ft. 8 1/2 in. in the high jump to win and Jay Hughes won the shot...
...javelin and high jump. Adrian Tew, who set a new Harvard record with a throw of 226 ft. 7 in. seems to have too much for Cambridge's Colin Shaw, whose 197 ft. 6 in. best is considerably below Tew's mark. In the high jump Harvard's Mel Embree has cleared 6 ft. 8 in. and teammate Bill Bihrle has gone 6 ft. 6 in., both far above Oxford's Richard Gyles's 6 ft. 2 in. best...
...other IC4A action, Sam Butler took a fourth in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles, Nick Leone grabbed fifth place in the 440-yard dash and Mel Embree finished fifth in the high jump...
However wry Roth is, baseball is a religion in this novel. A ghostly past of Mel Ott, of Honus Wagner, the Folo Grounds, Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- it haunts this book. To Word Smith, it fled with America's innocence. In the bleachers at Fenway the other night, thinking of this, and badly shaken by the rendition of "Knock Three Times" that had just been piped to us at a deafening level, the kid in front of me with the baseball cap began loudly to taunt the center-fielder with the ageless imputation that he bit the dust. This convinced...