Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, he smashed every Harvard diving record en route to an undefeated dual-meet season...
Chinabound is anecdotes. It is the "oriental serutability" of "Ed Reischauer," the six-week bike ride before the first visit to China, encounters with Chou En-Lai, and rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it's also much more. Fairbank infuses his personal tales with the kind of clairvoyance which has distinguished him as a compassionate commentator as well as pioneer historian. With his first-hand familiarity with the U.S. effort to aid Chiang Kai-shek's regime, he describes his concern for increasingly confused...
Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...
...entrance into the game of Muscleman in the fifth ended the Crimson's pitching problems as well as the Huskies hopes of staging a comeback. The southpaw shut down Northeastern's offense the rest of the way yielding only two hits and no runs en route to picking up the first save of his Harvard career...
...some 200 rocky outcroppings barely suitable for the chief local industry, sheep raising, hardly seemed worth the effort. But for nearly 150 years they have been the focus of controversy between Britain and Argentina. The main island grouping, the Falklands, was discovered by the British in 1 592, tak en over by the Spanish in 1770 and reclaimed as a crown colony in 1833. Ever since Argentina won its independence from Spain in 1816, it has claimed the islands, even though the 1,700 Falkland residents today are overwhelmingly English-speaking British subjects...