Word: batons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Co-Captain Scott Murrer crossed the finish line with the baton in his hand four seconds before the Northeastern anchorman, the Harvard men's track team got the necessary five points it needed to clinch the victory...
...Little less than three years ago. Dwayne Jones took the baton from teammate Scott Murrer and ran his first quarter-mile-ever. When the 1600 relay was over. Jones name was in the Harvard record books, and since then it has appeared there again and again and again...
DIED. Igor Markevitch, 70, exacting Russian-born, Swiss-reared conductor who began as a composing prodigy-dubbed Igor II, he was expected to follow in Stravinsky's footsteps-but in 1930 picked up the baton and became best known as a master of conducting precision; after a heart attack; in Antibes, France. Markevitch advocated the use of standardized gestures on the podium, saying, "Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. Certain movements produce certain sounds...
...Baton Rouge...
Like other taxpayers who have got into trouble with the IRS, Wilkinson sought to blame his difficulties on a technical mistake. "It was a major bookkeeping error," he explained from his headquarters in Denham Springs, a rural suburb of Baton Rouge. Wilkinson claimed he discovered the error himself while scanning the organization's financial records. He dutifully reported the mistake to the IRS, he said, but it slapped the Klan with hefty penalties anyway. He added, "They were unkind. They put the maximum of everything...