Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bet on it. Tech beat a Huskie crew which was only a shadow of its former self. Northeastern suffered more from graduation than any crew in the East last year losing, among others, the key to their boat, stroke Cal Coffee...
...getting rid of controls, Congress and the Administration are making a risky bet that a record harvest this fall, and a potential drop in oil prices resulting from increased supplies will take much of the steam out of the present inflation. If they are wrong, the big loser will be the already price-burdened U.S. consumer...
Looking further into the future, to the Preakness and the Belmont, would be pointless right now. One thing is certain, though: it's a pretty good bet that there won't be a Triple Crown winner this year. But keep your eye on Penny Tweedy's twosome, anyway. Even a small-degree of association with her former champions may be enough to get Capital Asset and Capito by this year...
...Robin Backhaus is the man to beat, but Harvard's Yntema has an excellent shot, with Alan Poucher of USC another good bet. Yntema should break 1:50, and he must if he is to equal last year's superlative third-place finish...
...share the load. "It's difficult; one person can do just so much. We lost nine black faculty and admistrators last year, and though some were replaced the numbers still moved in a negative direction. The biggest problem that black students have at Harvard is finding role models. I bet if a black student did not take an Afro Studies course or Social Sciences 132, he could go through here without ever knowing a black professor. Try reversing that. Can you imagine white students unable to meet white professors...