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...banners when their Swiss hero hit the slopes; less than two minutes later, their hopes were dead. When AJ Kitt came down the course, eight Americans huddled round walkie-talkies and urged him on, "Go, go, be aggressive, be aggressive. That's it, come on. Be aggressive!" He finished ninth. And when local favorite Fabrice Guy finally crossed the finish line for gold in Nordic combined, women wept...
...front of large Bulldog crowds, the men's team snatched eight of the nine games contested to win its ninth championship in the last 10 years...
...heavily favored Crimson should win, it would mean a ninth national title for the team in the last ten years...
Looks like we have finally seen the last of the new Nixons. Anyone who remembers his campaign and White House oratory will recognize the old Nixon's rhetorical devices from the first page of his new book, the ninth he has written. Once again we encounter the continual setting up of straw men, the self-righteous refusal to take (or in this case recommend) the easy and popular course, even -- Lord help us! -- the incidentally-I-have-negotiated- with-Khrushchev bit. Some of the old class resentment and malice toward foes linger too. Doubtless Nixon genuinely believes Boris Yeltsin...
Princeton may be an unimpressive 5-9-0 in ECAC action (ninth place overall), but the team comes into Saturday's contest against the Crimson having won three of its last four conference games, including its most recent 3-2 victory against a respectable Cornell squad...