Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 1, Yale won the Big Three track meet, scoring 52 points to Harvard's 51, and Princeton's 34. Or at least everyone at the time thought that Yale had pulled one of the biggest upsets of the indoor season. Then Princeton track coach, Pete Morgan, read in the Sunday Trenton Times that one of his weight men, Tim McCann, had signed a professional football contract with the New York Giants...
Unfortunately, Volpe precluded any rational argument about the SSTs' merit by the terms in which he stated his case. America need to build a big, bumbling jet, he said, because the Russians and the French are building them. "The United States cannot afford to be a third-rate power in this kind of project." In pragmatic economic terms, the international-competition analysis suggests that the U.S. should quit the SST race. Since the French and Russians are at least two years ahead of the American SST pace, the tardy U.S. model would probably find few buyers in the international market...
...make up for what they lack in talent with eagerness. One gentleman who has both is John Kelly the elder, a spry 65-year-old man whose name is almost synonymous with the Boston Marathon. Kelly, who works out in spiffy white shorts and a red shirt with a big white "H," runs for an hour six days a week and for three hours on the seventh...
...next big event is the NEAAU 3--kilometer race this Sunday in New Bedford. Thirty kilometers is a pretty ambitious workout for most people this early in the season. "I just want to run more than I walk, and stay under 12 minutes a mile," one energetic man said...
...Patriots' Day and it's the big one. There are many famous legs in the Boston Marathon, and Thousands of people take time out from their busy lives to watch the greatest exhibition of masochism in the Boston area. "It's all worth it," said one entrant, "until you see all the guys getting sick in the Prudential locker room afterwards...