Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At its annual convention in San Antonio which concluded early last month, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)--the body which exercises virtually absolute control over all serious non-intercollegiate amateur swimming in this country--suspended 18 top U.S swimmers for violations of the organization's swimming Code of Conduct. It...
Before this weekend's second annual U.S.A. Women's International Swimming Competition was over, however, a perky group of U.S. teenagers, undaunted by the absence of some of their speediest countrywomen because of suspension by the Amateur Athletic Union (see page three), managed to avoid a repeat of the 1976...
Despite the athletic paraphernalia, the club's most prized asset may be its library, a 25,000-volume, six-room affair with a large rare-book collection and the largest collection of Harvardiana outside of Cambridge.
Other men attracted greater attention than Teng Hsiao-p'ing in this varied and violent year (see story page 40). After an uncertain apprenticeship that saw his popularity rating drop to 30% in the polls, President Jimmy Carter was able to recoup through his foreign policy victories. At his Camp...
At 65, when most coaches have succumbed to ulcers or failure or both, the Bear is still happily atop his patch. And determined to remain so. With Stagg's record in sight, he left early Sugar Bowl preparation to his aides and went off recruiting. Barnstorming across Alabama, Georgia...