Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pitted first against a Cornell crew that defeated the Crimson earlier in the season, Coach Harvey Love's boat lost by a length and a half. Cornell in turn was barely edged out by Navy, which won the 2000-meter heat in 6 min. 37.7 sec., fastest time...
...renewed cold-war freeze and the heat of a U.S. presidential-election campaign have brought newspaper pundits back to life. Last week three of the most articulate stated their views in unmistakable terms (see below). The New York Times's economic specialist, Edwin L. Dale Jr., 36, now in the paper's Paris bureau after five years in Washington, chided his fellow intellectuals for their consistently conformist view of free world, and especially American, "failure." James Reston, the Times's Washington bureau chief, could contain his pent-up disdain for President Eisenhower no longer and dashed...
...Crimson's heavyweight crew is currently working out on the 1 1/2 mile Lake Onondaga course at Syracuse for the Olympic trials, to be held there on Thursday. Seeded fourth in the competition, the heavies face the Cornell junior-varsity and the Union Boat Club entry in its first heat...
...breath of the loo last week made a vast oven of north India, sending aloft choking clouds of dust that turned skies the color of tarnished brass. Delicate animals at New Delhi's zoo were shipped off to the mountains to beat the heat, and hordes of humans had the same idea; many queued up all night at railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials...
...temperature hit 114° and stayed there for days. At filling stations, attendants piled water-soaked burlap bags atop gasoline pumps to keep the mechanisms working, and it was standard practice for motorists to leave their car hoods up in the all-day parking lots. Hospitals were filled with heat-prostration cases. More than 150 died...