Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet apart. Sometimes husbands and wives will leave a his-her pair on one side of the lodge, their mates mated off on the other, and stomp off to have a carefree lunch. But even that is not infallible. Recently a racer at Squaw Valley stashed his Head Competitor skis in widely separated locations, only to find when he returned that they had been replaced with a matching pair of gouged wooden ones...
Wayne Anderson of Harvard was the only competitor to defend a first-place medal from last year's meet. Anderson nipped the Northeastern trio of Roger Pierce, Karl Farmer, and Willie Cater, for a 5.6 second victory in the 50-yard dash...
...victory earned Kidd the Adelboden combined title. More important, it boosted his personal score after two meets to 60 points-20 more than his closest individual competitor, four more than the combined teams of Austria and Italy. So far at least, the U.S.'s one-man gang was No. 1 in the world...
Except for cyclists, who find that decreased air resistance can make up for the effects of decreased oxygen for as long as five minutes, a competitor in an event that lasts more than about 1½ minutes will almost certainly turn in a sub-par performance. Says Dr. Hanley: "We found that boxers in Mexico City who were used to two-minute rounds really had problems when the rounds ran three minutes...
...little State Department." Under Kennedy, who cared little for rigid protocol or strict administrative lines of organization, Bundy often had more influence on foreign policy decisions than Dean Rusk himself. He nonetheless disclaimed any interest in power for power's sake. "I'm no man's competitor," Bundy said recently, "I'm everybody's catalyst...