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English was 13th after the third round, only one point out of tenth. But despite his failure to make the finals, he dove extremely well with only a four-and-a-half on a difficult two-and-a-half twister preventing him from scoring...
...Union's clamour is no more than a sham exercise in righteouseness. Tiny numbers of graduate students, less than a tenth of those at Harvard, voted to march out on strike if and when they can persuade another tenth to do likewise. Their exhortations attack a litany of alleged abuses--determination of spouse and parental income in judging scholarship need, preservation of awards based on merit, and refusal to recognize the Union as sole agent for grad students. Such complaints amount to no more, it appears, than a continuation of the great "Gimme" game of the sixties, in which...
...Crimson placed three players in the top ten rankings of the nation. Peter Briggs, for the second year in a row, emerged from the season ranked number one nationally. Andy Weigand, number two for the Crimson, was named number two in the country while Glen Whitman ended up tenth...
...Harvard wrestling coach John Lee can tell, the frustration is over. His struggling squad closed out its most arduous season last weekend by placing tenth in the Easterns. The team also finished sixth in the Ivy League and compiled an unimpressive 5-11 dual meet record...
Thugs. Both incidents point to a relatively new phenomenon in law-abiding Japan that has police seriously worried: the rapid growth and increasing boldness of Mafia-like crime syndicates. Japan boasts the lowest crime rate of any industrial nation (Tokyo's homicide rate is about one-tenth that of New York's, for instance, and robbery is almost nonexistent). But police estimate that the country now has 124,000 yakuza (good-for-nothings, as mobsters are commonly called), divided into some 2,900 gangs. A crackdown on these boryokudan (violence organizations) has become the top priority of Japan...