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During halftime of last Saturday's Harvard-Princeton men's basketball game at Briggs Cage, freshman Steve Brown--vying for the "Bermuda Shoot" prize--sank a basket from mid-court. The reward Brown expected was two tickets for spring break vacation to Bermuda...
...11th-ranked Blue Devils (18-4) clung to a 46-35 halftime lead. before dominating in the second half, outshooting the Crimson, 59 to 24 percent. For the game, Duke hit 56 percent of its shots, while the Crimson sank 29 percent...
From its opening sequence, Burning convincingly recaptures the racial dread of 1964 Mississippi. But the verisimilitude is soon sacrificed for a bogus conclusion: that to protect the rights of blacks, the Federal Government sank to the same level of lawless terror occupied by the Ku Klux Klan. To the extent they appear at all, blacks are portrayed as ineffectual victims, helplessly waiting for the "Kennedy boys" to set them free. In due course, that is just what happens, as the FBI cracks the case by brutally intimidating a white witness...
...Brazilians' rhythm. By half time the U.S. had moved ahead 63-55, and a 21-7 tear at the start of the second half put the game beyond even the reach of Brazilian superstar Oscar Schmidt, who managed 31 points despite close coverage. (In a later losing effort, Schmidt sank 55 points, an Olympic record.) This week the Americans will probably face strong challenges from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union...
...America's Cup sank into a Bermuda Triangle of lawyers, loudmouths and bad losers last week. In the best-of-three event, Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes grimly fended off a rogue challenge for the jug, outsailing New Zealand in a pair of yawners off San Diego. Nearly the only exciting development was the fact that Stars & Stripes flew sponsors' logos, a Cup first. One of them, Diet Pepsi, was an apt choice for a low-calorie affair that was an embarrassing mismatch...