Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard settled to a 36 after its start, but was not out of the race by any means, for Penn never really settled its stroke at all. At the 1000 meter mark, Penn was up at 39. Harvard, back by four seats and stroking a smooth 34, was moving closer...
...will eventually expand. The DPW faced the following choice: it could put the Belt along Brookline-Elm, through the heart of residential and commercial districts, and allow extra growing room for the businesses who will want to be close to NASA and M.I.T.; or, it could select Portland-Albany, closer to the current boundaries of the commercial and residential areas, and permit these sectors -- in which there is both good and bad housing, prospering and shaky businesses -- to work out their own future...
...Lately they have straightened up a bit, just enough to become the first super-star hippy musicians in America's history. Their rock is harder than the Lovin Spoonful's, their lyrics are heavier than the Rolling Stones', their message is sweeter than the Beatles'--the Jefferson Airplane is closer to where it's at than anyone else...
...Virginia Woolf-cub who has earned her share of scars in the jungle war between the sexes. As her mate, a self-centered architect, Finney is not so fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...
Last week in the Adams Cup, it was Harvard over Penn by a length and a half in the heavyweight freshman contest. Penn coach Ted Nash said after the race: "We're going to close in on them next week." Saturday's race will probably be a closer...