Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without Comfort. In the 1969 contest, 309 hardy snowcatters plowed out of Anchorage on the first leg of a threeday, 600-mile trek to Fairbanks. Propelled by tanklike treads and steered by handlebars attached to a pair of front-running skis, most of the 20 makes of snowmobiles in the race were capable of powering through the snow at 80 m.p.h. on a straightaway. The course, however, spiraled up and around the rugged peaks of the Alaska Range at elevations of 3,300 ft. or more. Bone-chilling winds gusted to 70 m.p.h., and the snowmobilers became more concerned with...
...winners of the annual Harvard Concerto Contest are Norman Letvin, who played the Premiere Rhapsody for clarinet by Debussy, and Ronald Takvorian, who performed Prokofieff's Third Piano Concerto, Both winners will appear as soloists in a forthcoming HRO concert. The other participants were Philip Kraft; Richard Metzler; Jane Meyers; Michael Reisman; William Spady; Jonathan Taylor; and Taite S. Walkenen...
...says that this passage implies that the Ad Board will have "unlimited powers of judgment" in determining what "obstructing" means. "'Obstructing' could include any dissenting action," NUC says, "whether this be giving all A's to contest the grading system, or burning down the ROTC building...
Dartmouth came into the contest with a miserable 2-5-2 record and an 11-2 drubbing by Harvard, so there was little to indicate that the game would be any different from Tuesday's 12-0 romp over Penn...
...freshmen duplicated the varsity's four goal third period in their 8-3 win over Dartmouth's freshmen earlier yesterday. The Yardlings scored two goals in the first minute of the last period--Bill Holmes to Lief Rosenberger and then Rosenberger to Holmes--to break open the contest. Center Bob Havern had a hat trick in the victory--Harvard's tenth against one loss...