Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brekekekex ko-äx ko-äx! As the famed croaking chant, the croaking chorus of the frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof...
...Warehouse is "openclassroom" in that it is divided into different areas--an art room, music room, science room, shop, gym, special room for the youngest students, library, office, drama area, and two classrooms, as well as "middle earth," a large open area at the center where many distinct activities go on. Students move in and out of the areas as they choose, create their own schedules, concentrate on their individual interests, and go to "closed classes," which are scheduled on a bulletin board in the middle of the school. A closed class is one which meets at a specified hour...
...that terrible that the weight room doesn't have all those pretentious, souped-up facilities that other schools conspicuously display? But most importantly, is the IAB gym really as inadequate as it is made...
Shortly after dawn one day last week, three Arab terrorists, dressed in khakis, blue windbreakers and gym shoes, crept into the sleeping Israeli village of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 17,000) near the Lebanese border. Armed with bazookas, grenades and submachine guns, they shot their way up to the top of a four-story apartment building, firing indiscriminately into one apartment after the other. As sirens sounded and townspeople scurried for shelter, Israeli troops rushed to the scene. When the shooting stopped four hours later, 18 Israeli men, women and children-as well as the three terrorists-lay dead. At least...
Very few track teams look bad on paper. Even the worst clubs always have a couple of speedy quarter-milers, or at least a handful of top-flight jumpers. However, unless Princeton is holding a few runners in storage in that Jadwin Gym of theirs, it looks like Coach Edgar Stowell's Harvard thinclads will chalk up their first dual meet victory of the season today...