Word: floor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleared the boards against a team that had a front line measuring 6-ft, 11-ins., 6 ft. 8 ins., and 6-ft. 5-ins. Captain Bob Allen, the squad's only senior, tied forward Tom Mannix with six rebounds, and Allen also hit five for five from the floor...
Despite their recklessness, the Crimson gained control of the game. Kleinfelder replaced several starters, and with four freshmen on the floor, Harvard grabbed the lead, 29-27, at the 15 minute mark. Freshman subs Frenesa Hall and Margot Long meshed well with starters Pat Horne and Scannell until two errant passes allowed UMass to catch its breath and take a 37-35 lead into the locker room. The first game ended...
...Chicago-based Urban Investment and Development Co.; two years later the firm was sold to Aetna Life & Casualty for more than $52 million. His latest major project was Water Tower Place, a 74-story, $195 million showpiece on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue. The complex includes the 20-floor Ritz-Carlton hotel, 150 stores and 40 floors of high-priced condominiums. Klutznick and his wife Ethel occupy one of them near the top floor; he calls it living "over the store." They have four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren...
Although he philosophically opposes any windfall levy, Louisiana's Russell Long, the Finance Committee chairman who is the floor leader of the Senate debate, says the tax is the political cost that the energy industry must pay in order to end crude oil controls. Long, who himself has extensive oil holdings, argues further that the nation can no longer afford a witch hunt against the petroleum companies. Last week he told a cheering Manhattan meeting of energy producers: "Those who defame us, curse us, abuse us and lie about us, would be in one hell of a fix without...
Margaret, 32, a California housewife, seemed in perfect health. Then, while shopping one day, she suddenly fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain, for several months before he died in his sleep. In both cases, doctors assumed the fatal attacks had been triggered by blood clots or atherosclerotic plaques clogging the pencil-thin arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle. But autopsies showed that the coronary arteries of both victims were...