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...Seed times don't mean a whole lot, but based on what I've seen on the teams we've swum and from the conference meet times, I'd say we should be all right," Florida coach Randy Reese said cautiously last week. "It's hard to predict what will happen once the meet begins. Everyone prepares a little differently. But because of our depth, I'd say we have a shot...
...victory culminates an incredible success story for the Big Red, which becomes the first number eight seed to win the crown in the tournament's 19-year history. Sporting a 9-11 record with two games remaining, coach Dick Bertrand's charges topped Providence and Boston University to edge Maine for the final playoff spot, and then knocked off the tournament's top three seeds--Boston College, Clarkson and the Big Green--to cop the title...
...soil. But most of them are bigger; water-borne tomatoes, for instance, may be 20% larger than earth-borne ones. The vegetables also mature much faster. The Lincoln Park Zoo maintains continuous production of fresh barley grass for the animals by "planting" two 50-lb. bags or so of seed every day; each new crop of grass is ready for harvesting in a week, compared with the six to eight weeks required for soil-grown barley...
...instance, in one of the outstanding contests of the entire meet, the 1650-yd. freestyle, Harvard's Maureen Gildea was, based on previous times, the first seed, but Bruin swimmers occupied five of the other 11 places. No other Harvard swimmer was among...
...What Cheer, Iowa (pop. 860), to find one of those friendly, folksy, salt-of-the-earth farmers whom journalists covering the state's political caucuses last week seemed to dote on. Shortly after he pulled into town, Drake spotted a suitably rustic fellow walking out of a seed store toward a pickup truck. The farmer listened politely to the reporter's request for some colorful quotes on President Carter's Soviet grain embargo and without hesitating asked, "Can I go off the record with you?" Says Drake: "I was stunned. I was waiting...