Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winter Games is spent shaking down a new generation of skaters in annual world championships. By the time the Olympic flame is lit again, a pecking order has been created that places ruthless demands on contenders and newcomers alike. For the favorites, there is the safety of incumbency. Like heavyweight champions, they cannot lose their titles on a draw: they must be beaten. But with that status come expectations that are perhaps impossible to fulfill. Thus, after a performance that was lackluster by his exacting standards, Hamilton could finger his gold medal and say, "I look at this...
...back of the hand-a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny to the three Jay children for eleven...
John G. Hornblower '84, a member of the heavyweight crew team, which traditionally remains close to the Charles during spring break, said yesterday that the absence of a meal plan has been "a real hassle...
...boat, does it make sense for the other partner to shoot another hole? There are those who say yes and call it getting tough. I call it getting wet." In practice, however, the White House too often bowed to pressure for import barriers. The Government hiked the tariff on heavyweight motorcycles from 4.4% to 49.4% to shield the last U.S. manufacturer, Harley-Davidson, and imposed tighter import controls on textiles...
Coach Harry Parker's heavyweight crew squad endured a novel training program this past Saturday: The Newell (Boathouse) Triathalon. Consisting of 1) a half-hour row on a rowing machine; 2) a four-mile run; and 3) a run up and down each of the stadium's 37 rows, the triathalon claimed many oarsmen's Saturday night revelries...