Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obese volumes by heavyweight authors on Richard Nixon are upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased...
Coming off last May's Eastern Sprints championships, Harvard's heavyweight and lightweight crews--both consistent contenders for the national title--are looking to get a "Head"-start on next spring's season...
...people are very excited," said heavyweight Captain John Bernstein. "Although a lot of our people graduated, we still have a lot of talent on the squad, and I think we'll do well on Sunday...
...will be really tough," said senior Julian Buriak, who rows in the heavyweight boat. "The BRC beat us in this race last year, but last spring we defeated them...
...Barrow, 40, a black businessman the mayor defeated four years ago by painting him as a pawn of white suburbanites. But Barrow has been blasting at Young's predilection for sparkling downtown development projects over measures to help the city's devastated neighborhoods. A cousin of the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, Barrow also derides the mayor as a holdover "from an old era" who naively granted sizable tax abatements to Chrysler and General Motors for plant construction projects that did not create as many jobs as promised or that cost taxpayers too much. Barrow promotes himself as wise...