Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard heavyweight crew raised $480 for the Boston University rowing program, which B.U. officials have threatened to eliminate unless the oarsmen raise...
...There's a Ford in your future," ran the familiar ad. For retired Heavyweight Muhammad Ali, 37, Ford is in the past; it is a Toyota that beckons. Window-shopping in Beverly Hillsi Calif., Ali tried the driver's seat of a 1909 Ford Tour-About. Meanwhile, for Toyota, personal appearances and Ali plugs in Arabic are being planned for the champ in Saudi Arabia. The auto company hopes his well-known face and Muslim religion will persuade Saudis to go Toyota...
Billy Hobbs, '71, heavyweight rowing silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics, slaps his significant girth, smiles and says, "This is a change in strategy...
There have been several such changes in strategy--though none quite so dramatic--since 1972, when Harry Parker coached a heavyweight beat with six of nine oarsmen from Harvard to second place in Germany. Every year since, almost all of the nine have reassembled in Cambridge for another shot at rowing glory in the Head of the Charles Regatta...
Raymond said the hopeful Olympians are probably working out at Newell because the Olympic Rowing Committee (ORC) will probably ask Harvard heavyweight coach Harry Parker to coach the U.S. men's eight next July in the 1980 Olympics...