Word: upset
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...psychological advantage enjoyed by an underdog team seeking to upset an arch rival is a phenomenon common to almost any sport. But this shaving bit is something else. Only swimmers use this tactic. Every swimmer worth anything does it religiously before the big meet of the season. And no one really understands why it works, even the coaches and the athletes themselves. All everyone knows is that it does work, sometimes incredibly well...
Which brings us back to the Harvard-Princeton meet. Shaving was a necessity for Princeton if they were to entertain serious thoughts of an upset. Why do it now, though, if the Easterns, the championship for which almost everyone from the Eastern League "saves their shave," is only four weeks away...
...Harvard icewomen, dormant most of this season, exploded for five goals in the final two periods en route to a 5-1 upset of Dartmouth at Bright yesterday...
...being paid for by still heavier tax loads. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "That's the Carter strategy: to balance the bud get by tax up-creep." The President's skillfully crafted election year strategy of higher federal spending combined with steep taxes, however, could still be upset by howling taxpayers on the verge of revolt...
Hermassi was upset over the one-sided nature of the publicity. Though WOASH leaked his name to the press, none of his supposed victims has been identified. Said he: "I'm terrified." But WOASH does not believe Hermassi has suffered enough. "The suspension is a piddling result, an outrage," says Merle Weiner, 27, a sociology graduate student who is a leader of WOASH. The organization vows to re-open the fight if the professor returns to Berkeley and seeks tenure next fall...