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...hand, Harvard established itself as the king of Eastern swimming by outscoring arch-rival Princeton, 30-18, in what amounted to the rubber match of their season series. Bobby Hackett led the Crimson with a fifth place finish in the 500 freestyle the first evening, followed by a seventh place swim in the 200 freestyle and a gutsy third place 1650 finish on the second and third nights, respectively. The only other Crimson point was scored by Larry Countryman in the marathon...
...some producers and editors have begun to run the film backward, a process similar to watching spawn swim downstream to salmon. An idea is "developed" by film executives, a writer is recruited to amplify the notion into a novel, and then the book is converted to celluloid. The trend has become widespread: Simon & Schuster Editor David Obst recently moved his offices to Hollywood, and Bantam Books has established a film-production company in Los Angeles. Its acquisitions editor Charles Bloch regards the cinema-literary process as "a sophisticated methodology of people who have an interest in both books and movies...
...Rico over Christmas; the bitter taste of the unexpected loss to Princeton followed by the ecstasy of the upset of Indiana and the convincing defense of the Eastern Seaboard title--these events are history now, and the time has come, at next week's NCAA Championships, for the Crimson swim team to show itself and the world just how good a swimming program we have here in Cambridge...
...only wanting to be "competitive," and achieving "parity." None of that for Bernal. He says repeatedly that a first-rate academic program and a first-rate athletic program need not be mutually exclusive. "When there's a sport where we can compete with a team like Indiana, we should swim them," Bernal says, "We're not sacrificing anything to be competitive with them...
...there is David Lundberg, a Provo, Utah, native and a recruit of Hackett-like proportions. Lundberg will swim in three individual events, the 200-yd. breaststroke, the 200- and 400-yd. individual medleys, and Bernal says he "has the potential to score in all three...