Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patrice became a familiar figure in the winner's circle, often on her father's arm, but she led a very cloistered life...
...Wolfsons divide their time among their Clermont Farm near Saratoga Springs, New York, a house on Long Island, a condominium in Bal Harbour, Fla., and wherever their horses are running. They are becoming familiar to the racing public as a strikingly handsome couple who like to hold hands and gaze lovingly at each other. Louis keeps his weight down by eating cottage-cheese-and-peaches lunches and doing 15 minutes of calisthenics a day. Patrice has given up her painting under the pressures of racing and of managing the various Wolfson households. "I'm busy being a housewife...
...name and style, the derby's races are closely patterned after the more familiar slalom and downhill races in alpine skiing. In the slalom events, the contestants must weave down the river, passing through a series of metal gates. Novices have to pass through 15 gates; the hardy competitors who try the toughest slalom must find a way of getting through 20, which are often devilishly placed in the most treacherous spots in the Hudson. Anyone hitting a gate suffers penalty points; anyone missing one then and there loses just about any chance of winning. The longest slalom race...
...blood from the heart. The clue appeared in a picture of the President taken in 1863. Lincoln had his legs crossed, and in an otherwise sharp photo, the left foot-suspended in the air -is blurred. When viewing the print. Lincoln asked why the foot was fuzzy. A friend familiar with physiology suggested that the throbbing arteries in the leg might have caused some movement. Lincoln promptly crossed his legs and watched. "That's it!" he exclaimed. "Now that's very curious, isn't it?" Not to Schwartz. The Marfan-caused defect, he points out, results...
Roger W. Ferguson '73, a member of the Black Alumni Coordinating Group, the sponsor of the convention, said yesterday the goals of the convention were to make black alumni familiar with important minority developments at Harvard, enable alumni to exchange ideas with each other, maintain contact between black alumni and enable them to meet other blacks...