Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average and four touchdowns....Trivia fans will duly note the name of Cornell's second-string fullback for tomorrow's contest: Dick Clasby, Jr. Clasby, number two on Cornell's depth chart behind Ben Tenuta after missing two games with a hip pointer, is the son of ex-Harvard grid star Dick Clasby, Sr. '55. Dick's older brother, Mike, is a senior in Eliot House...
MacMurray has no grand illusions about his answer to the punting question. He knows he is not a cannon-legged messiah here to save the Crimson charges and nail the coffin corner shut on grid-iron foes. He simply believes he can kick a football and little by little he has been erasing the question mark that shrouded the Harvard punting game in the preseason forecasts...
...defense patrols for the Cuban air force. Soviet technicians are everywhere; there are more than 400 at one nickel mining and processing facility in eastern Cuba. Teams of Russian electrical specialists have fanned out around the countryside to erect high-tension wires as part of a new nationwide power grid. The Russians are involved in every section of Cuban industry and agriculture and most government ministries, notably including the Ministry of Interior and its espionage branch, the DGI (General Directorate of Intelligence), which works hand in glove with the Soviet...
...Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much smaller world average. Most students take to heart what they learn. Diane Molzahn, 13, reports that her family have "cut the use of most small appliances and have begun washing dishes by hand instead of using...
...also numbered, even streets running east and odd streets running west. A few streets, like 42nd, run both ways. When you get into the real downtown area, around Greenwich Village, the streets are named and make no particular sense. Central Park sits right in the middle of this large grid, and that means that a whole lot of streets north of 57th just end at the Park. In short, you're bound to get lost driving or walking, so take a cab. It's one of the most adventurous things you can do in New York...