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...event which could decide the outcome of the meet. The Crimson thinclads have senior Ed Baskauskas, a double-winner in the meet against Boston University, and junior Bill Bihrle in the high jump. The pole vault depends on whether sophomore Jim Kleiger, who had a summer knee operation, can regain the 16-foot form that he had as a freshman...
Phil Kydes, Rick Scott and Chris Wilmot were kept out of the scrimmage on Sunday, but they will be ready for today's game. Phil Axten is physically fit for the first time since his concussion six weeks ago, but he will probably need two weeks of practice to regain top form...
...knows what form the showdown took or why Lin felt compelled to seek it. Almost certainly, Lin's fall was related to a desperate drive by leftists who rose to brief prominence during the Cultural Revolution to regain power in the party, which has been rebuilt over the past 2½ years under the military's aegis. Lin, of course, was vice chairman of the party. But was he resisting the leftists, in his role as China's Defense Minister? Or was he battling the military, in his role as a leading leftist...
...second place finish in the Ivy League. Princeton, defending champion, lost most of its squad through graduation, but the Tigers had a good freshman nucleus. Penn has been recruiting heavily and should have some strong freshmen, and Cornell has an undefeated freshman team that should help them regain Ivy supremacy. Even Columbia nearly upset the Crimson last fall...
...aggression pact between Washington and Peking, or an agreement by both powers to renounce the use of force in any dispute in Asia. Either kind of agreement would seem to offer Peking no particular advantage and would tie its hands militarily in its avowed determination to regain control of Taiwan. Moreover, either would be taken as an unnecessarily friendly gesture toward the U.S. by Peking's allies in Hanoi and North Korea-and Peking has no desire to give the U.S.S.R. any greater influence in those two nations along its own borders...