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...initial setback for Cornell was the last-place finish of highly touted diver Mike Guzewicz in the first one-meter diving competition while Harvard's Dave English won the event in his first home meet of the year. English also took first in the second one-meter event as he beat out Guzewicz by a scant 20/100 of a point. The second competition featured one of the finest diving exhibitions of the year as the top three divers each scored over 270 points...
...thinclads will take a 5-2 record to Northeastern this Saturday in their final dual meet of the indoor season. The Crimson hopes to avenge its GBC setback against the Huskies and, even more importantly, it hopes to gather some urgently needed momentum for the Heptagonals March...
...think Israel is stronger, more stable than last year," he says. "Some people are depressed because of the setback in 1973, but we still won the war. Of course, right now I see less chance of a complete cessation of hostilities in the very near future than I had hoped. Before 1973, we had been kidding ourselves about the immediate chances for peace...
...Crimson fencers' quest for the Ivy tittle suffered a severe setback Saturday as they lost to the Princeton Tigers, 17-10, at Princeton...
Still, as a State Department expert put it, "SALT has survived the Cambodian invasion, the mining of Haiphong and the Middle East war." In spite of this week's serious setback, the Soviet cancellation of the trade agreement may well prove to be a tactical but not a strategic retreat from detente...