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...water quality, pesticide tolerance, radiation). Some employees changed offices and telephone numbers more times than a harassed bookie. Ruckelshaus, charged with responsibility for an area of enormous voter concern, was under heavy pressure to produce instant results. It was, he recalls, "like trying to run a 100-yd. dash while undergoing an appendectomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ruckelshaus' First Year | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...wide-eyed young visitors. But for the volunteer firemen of Genoa, Texas, in suburban Houston, that was not enough. In the past three years, eight bored Genoa firemen have set about 40 fires in abandoned buildings and grass fields. As soon as the blazes were going, the arsonists would dash back to the firehouse and rush off to put out their own fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fireman's Holiday | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...taught: the knack of picking and cutting his way through! the line." Moore is "one of the most graceful big men you'll ever see, a real high-stepper, a streaker in the mold of O.J. Simpson." He has the speed (4.5 sec. in the 40-yd. dash) to break away for the long gainer and the sure hands that may prompt the pros to switch him to wide receiver. Other runners admired by scouts are Jeff Kinney, Nebraska, 6 ft. 2 in.. 210 Ibs.. Jim Bertelsen, Texas, 5 ft. 1 1 in., 190 Ibs., and Johnny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME'S All-America Team: The Pick of the Pros | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Leon Sharpe said that he had a "bad night," but he still won the broad jump. Bailey Reid, as usual, won the 60-yard dash, and Harvard ran away with both relays, the mile and the two mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Thinclads Demolish Eagles | 12/16/1971 | See Source »

Harvard took both first and second places in the broad jump, the 60-yard high hurdles, and the two mile. The 60 yard dash was especially interesting since it matched two old high school rivals, Dewey Hickman of Harvard and John Bykowsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Thinclads Demolish Eagles | 12/16/1971 | See Source »

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