Word: enthusiasts
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...title of Scheer's book, With Enough Shovels, derives from a particularly bizarre interview with Thomas K. Jones, a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Jones is an enthusiast for civil defense and do-it-yourself bomb shelters. "Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top," he said. "It's the dirt that does it... If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody's going to make...
...original tutor over the speech subsided. Cozza as do other Yale athletic officials acknowledges that people realized that they had probably read too much into Giamatti's broad text. Yale officials like Cozza and athletic director for Frank Ryan maintain that Giamatti has always been a strong sports enthusiast. They point out that he regularly attends Yale sporting events be never indicated he wanted to do anything unilaterally and in general he wants to lessen the pressures facing the athletes. Although the speech wasn't very popular. Ryan admits that Giamatti merely wanted to clarify. Yale's perspective on athletics...
...Greenidge, native Cantabrigian and sports enthusiast, his new postion as Harvard Sports Information Director is like a dream come true Greenidge, whose responsibility is to inform the media about all news concerning Harvard athletics, has been a Crimson sports fan since childhood and has waited years for this...
...typical sports enthusiast if asked to compile ranking of the most physically demanding games may put football, basketball and hockey at the top of the list with volleyball just edging out Parcheesi...
DIED. Tubal Claude Ryan, 84, inventive aviation designer whose Ryan Airlines Inc. built Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in 60 days in 1927 for $15,000; in San Diego. A complete flying enthusiast, Ryan created and manufactured the first U.S. high-wing monoplane (the M-1), established the first regularly scheduled year-round passenger airline in the U.S., and ran an aeronautical school that trained more than 10,000 World War II pilots. During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane...