Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: Coach Joe Bernal's troops traveling to the shores of Lake Erie will be Harvard's strongest NCAA contingent in recent years. Barring a rash of illness or injury, their chances of improving upon last season's 15th place finish are bright...
Faster than a speeding bullet? Not likely, when Superman's bright blue leotard bulged from a paunch that was bound to blunt the man of steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...
...appears to have an ice crust and possibly a mud core. Remarkably, both moons are dotted with dark spots that some scientists are tentatively calling ice volcanoes-craters that spew ice instead of fire and lava. Still closer to Jupiter, Europa apparently hides a rocky core beneath its bright icy surface...
...graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Cephas taught history at the Choate-Rosemary Hall School in 1975. "Prep schools can turn a bright, energetic kid around and send him flying in the direction of further education and achievement," he said...
Some successful boat people are also work-aboards. New Yorker Harvey Abramson, 48, a bright-eyed, bearded designer of medical equipment, maintains an office in midtown Manhattan that he has not visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There...