Word: gymnasium
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...instead of leaving the court at Jadwin Gymnasium with a 15-point lead after the first half, Harvard was barely ahead, 35-31. Guard Jim Fitzsimmons, who has carried the Crimson all winter, had scored 17 of its points, including 11 in a six-minute span that brought Harvard from an 11-7 deficit to a 17-14 lead...
Judging from the mixed success of last week's performances in Japan, the authorities may have been overestimating the F.T.A.'s appeal. In Iwakuni, one-third of the G.l.s in a large gymnasium walked out before the show was over, apparently bored. The Japanese seemed somewhat disenchanted by Jane's transformation, as one weekly put it, "from a scandal actress to a pacifist." One fan who had expected to see Barbarella onstage lamented: "She looks too undistinguished and sounds too shrill...
...long punishing workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
...afterward to Paris-and worked as an interior decorator in England in the '30s. Of these formative years, English Critic John Russell, in a new book on Bacon (New York Graphic Society; $16.50), remarks, "Berlin and Paris gave him the notion of a big city as an erotic gymnasium. But there is also, in Bacon's makeup, a paradoxical austerity which he traces directly to his father." It is no accident that so many of Bacon's most compelling images are at root father-figures: the shrieking Pope, the dictator mouthing before the mikes, the worsted-sheathed...
...motorcade wound through the dusty town of Maria Elena in Chile's mountainous north, the Cuban Premier spied a gymnasium housing a basketball court. He ordered the caravan to a screeching halt, recruited a government official, three carabineros and five Chil ean newsmen, then sprang onto the court - combat boots, green fatigues and all - for a pickup game...