Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs of repairing the bubble over the indoor track, which suffered extensive damage in January, and improving the IAB and Watson Rink will "without a doubt" take money away from varsity sports, Radcliffe sports and other department activities. Watson said...
...Winthrop House wrestling team displayed surprising strength in the upper weight classes, capturing four first places to dominate the intramural wrestling tournament held last Wednesday and Thursday at the Indoor Athletic Building...
Thus last week a pampered philodendron was placed on the road to recovery from root disease. The indoor plant, belonging to a childless couple, had been wilting, yellowing and defoliating. Worse, when its owners-they prefer the term parents-talked to it, the philodendron would not listen. They gave it fertilizer treats, bathed it with the sun lamp and, fearing insect infestation, sponged its leaves with Baby-Wipes dipped in Scotch. Finally, in despair, the philodendrophiles called Karl Robinson's Mother Nature Hospital. At last report, the plant was out of intensive care and listening again...
...rather like the twice yearly dental checkup. In West Hollywood, Lynn and Joel Rapp, who run a plant store called Mother Earth, provide regular service to casual growers and chronically worried plantochondriacs alike, charging $35 and up for weekly sessions of care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window, bang! Disease can strike...
Without a strong running contingent the Crimson can hardly expect to finish strong in this mostly running competition. Unlike many other big indoor meets, the IC4A features three relays, a 440 and an 880, to supplement the usual 600 and 1000 events. This heavy running emphasis gives small squads like Manhattan, which has several good middle-distance specialists, a better chance to win than those teams more oriented to the needed depth of dual meet competition...