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Tomorrow's meet could be a different story though. Two-milers Mike Koerner, Ric Rojas and Fred Linsk will face some stiff competition from Row. And Harvard 600 runners Nick Leone and Rick Melvoin could have a rough time with Northeastern's lanky Paul Horrigan. The 6 ft. 2 in, 170-pounder shattered Northeastern's 600 record against St. John's, beating his opponent by 30 yards with a time of 1:12.7. The old record...
...sight and an all-volunteer Army on the near horizon, the topic is gaining currency. Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Taft Jr., a Republican with impeccable credentials, went so far last month as to introduce a bill to grant amnesty to draft resisters-with the stiff provision that it be coupled with three years in compensatory military or civilian federal service...
...Algiers-may have found a resting place at last. Swiss authorities have rejected U.S. demands that Leary be extradited to serve out the rest of his ten-year California sentence for possession of marijuana. The Swiss felt, as one official put it, that ten years was much too stiff a penalty for "finding two marijuana butts in the ashtray of a car that did not even belong to Leary...
...Stiff checking and hard skating by Crimson defensemen Janicek and Seannell, and fine goal-tending by Rick Moseley, allowed the Bruins only 3 goals, and marked an unusually fine performance...
Sharp Break. Each of the U.S. President's momentous moves was only a start?and each could fail. In fact, rarely have there been so many large ventures in mid-passage so late in any presidential term. Still uninspiring in rhetoric and often stiff in style, for the first time during his presidency he emerged as a tough, determined world leader. Finally seizing firm control of his office, he was willing to break sharply with tradition in his privately expressed desire "to make a difference" in his time. Should all his ventures succeed, history will indeed record not only that...