Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably not since the days of the ancient Greeks have so many exposed so much to so many. In one short week the naked dash has achieved Olympian, if not exactly Olympic proportions (see MODERN LIVING). Already those first lonely streakers across dark and isolated campuses seem the fusty pioneers of a misty age. The streaking contagion has spread to every corner of the U.S., spilled across to Europe, gingerly moved out ward in both directions on the age ladder, infected a still minority but growing number of women. What began as a tentative titter at the edge...
Clad only in surgical masks, two men dashed through a packed amphitheater where Harvard students were taking a first-year anatomy exam. Watching from his front porch, the president of Virginia's elegant Sweet Briar College gallantly applauded as 50 of his coeds sprinted by adorned only in their class years, lipsticked on in an approximate license-plate position. On busy U.S. Route 1, traffic was brought to a cheerful standstill by 533 University of Maryland students chain-dancing au naturel. With astonishing swiftness, streaking, the art of the point-to-point dash in the buff, has burgeoned into...
Well, first of all, Princeton had a home pool advantage, replete with a group of 75 streakers who shocked and delighted Friday night's crowd with a dash twice around the pool deck, base drum and all. Second, it had Billy Heinz to do some fancy diving. Third, it edged Harvard in the final 400-yd. free relay showdown to win the meet...
...second day of competition began with the 100-yd. dash and the half-mile run. With the palm trees looking like a mirage in the unseasonable 35° chill, OJ. Simpson jogged around the asphalt track repeating one thought: "Man, it's cold. The Juice may just not run in that 880.1 don't want to die down here." Simpson did run in the 100-yd. dash and with his sprinter's speed easily beat Seagren. When the 880 began, O.J., true to his word, was seated in a warm car and Seagren defeated Anderson...
...Superstars. Twelve athletes (including) John Havlicek, Bob Seagren, Reggie Jackson and Karl Schranz) compete against each other in seven of ten events (golf, tennis, 100-yard dash, 100-meter swimming, etc.) for $3000 per event and a $25,000 bonus. Kyle Rote Jr. wins handly. Ch.5, 2 p.m. 2 hours...