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There's nothing like a classic Ivy League showdown to bring together old captains and coaches. Spotted in the stands of Boldgett Pool during the Harvard men's blowout of Princeton University recently were ex-captains DICKIE GREER '90 and GEOFF SEELIN '81. And at the Varsity Club reception following the women swimmers' most against Princeton ex-captains SHARON BECKMAN '80 and KATIE KELLEY '81 were seen trading reminiscences with former women's swim coach, STEPHANIE WALSH...
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...wrestling team's final tuneup before the showdown for the Ivy League title against Yale, Harvard solidly beat the University of Massachusetts, 28-17, to pad their dual meet record to 14-3 and gain momentum for the contest this Saturday. Harvard coach Johnny Lee says his team is "set" as it works toward the biggest day in Harvard wrestling history...
...topics they discussed included post-mortems on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the U.S.-Soviet showdown over missiles in Cuba, the building of the Communist Wall in East Berlin and the fateful decisions to send more U.S. military advisers into South Viet Nam. As the tapes ran, Kennedy wrestled with civil rights in the South and worked with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to pressure Mississippi officials into accepting James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi...
...film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits a showdown at the film's completion. But Lange's and Farmer's time is now. Says Lange, who beat out Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld and Goldie Hawn for the role: "The movie is a statement about women's independence and how frightening...