Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leisurely pace. For the same type of sequence that an American network packs into 60 to 90 seconds, the Chinese frequently used more than five minutes, unbroken by commercials. Teng's diplomatic activities, his excursions to a Ford Motor plant outside Atlanta and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston, plus all social gatherings were presented in loving detail...
...visit, the Chinese reporters exasperated quote-hungry Americans with their studied reticence and spirit of bland approval. Ultimately, the expansive city of Houston inspired one reporter to venture a faintly salty comment. Confronted by an exhibit of lunar modules, space suits and moon buggies at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center, he saw fit to paraphrase ex-Premier Chou Enlai: "We have too many problems down here on earth. Until we solve them, there's no point in going to the moon...
Like the Yale victory on Friday night, the Crimson matched up well with the Bruins, who do not possess a dominating giant in the center position. Although giving up some height to the slightly taller visitors from Providence, Harvard still managed to out-rebound the Bruins, 40-31, using their 1-2-1 zone...
...Crimson's task of unseating sixtime defending Eastern champion Princeton was made somewhat more difficult this weekend when freshman distance ace Phil Atkinson announced his decision to take a semester's leave of absence, following a controversy over Atkinson's storage of nitroglycerine at the Science Center...
...their second-half comeback, the cagers narrowed the gap to as few as five points, but forward Brummel and center Rosa Aparicio, who led Yale with 12 points each, smothered the Harvard effort...