Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final practice stretch for their first race in two and a half weeks, the Crimson heavyweight oarsmen are settling down to try and solve a difficulty that has plagued them for the last few years: their inability to attain a really high speed over short distances The course for the Olympic races in Tokyo this summer as well as for the American trials in early July will be the 2000 meter sprint...
...steps from the diamond, on the Charles River, the heavyweight and lightweight crews are culminating a rigorous training schedule which began last fall...
...Georgia's filibustering Democratic Senator Richard Russell rose to take up the cause of Muhammad Ali, more commonly known as Cassius Clay. Scarcely troubling to conceal the twinkle in his eye, Russell inveighed against a World Boxing Association move to vacate Clay's world heavyweight championship title, cited it as a prime example of the intolerance that had inspired the civil rights bill...
...dice, roulette wheels, chemin de fer and blackjack were going full tilt. At one table a gambler toyed with $1,200 worth of chips; hovering over the dice was a Sidney Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call...
Harvard is no longer the heavyweight champion of academic fundraising, says a new survey by the John Price Jones Co. The crown has slipped west to Stanford, which last year raised $38.5 million, compared with Harvard's $36 million. The apparent spur was one of the Ford Foundation's challenge grants, which seem to be shifting the financial balance of power in U.S. college fundraising. Stanford took on a 3-for-l Ford grant of $25 million, swept past the goal by rounding up $84.2 million more in 33 months. Harvard has yet to be Ford-powered...