Word: jump
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Fencing and skiing demonstrate an equally scarce participation from upperclassmen. It is these individual sports, which offer less rigid training schedules, that seniors avoid. In fact, football, soccer, hockey, and baseball teams all have a large jump in lettermen from the sophomore to junior year. These sports also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
...education in general is no longer considered the exclusive privilege of society's upper clause. "Many of the kids going to college now are struggling for an education...Back in the '30's, they were all millionaires," says another City official. Even those who criticize Harvard most would usually jump at the chance to send their children to the College...
...early 1970s, the U.S. may be able to keep its far-flung commitments without having large permanent deployments of troops far from home. Reason: technological progress will give the armed forces such mobility as to permit retrenchment to locations in or close to the U.S., from which they can jump off for trouble spots on short notice. Mobility will get its biggest boost with the introduction in about three years of the C-5A, a transport capable of carrying 700 troops at 550 m.p.h. One hundred C-5A sorties would enable the Pentagon to throw 70,000 troops into...
...award of the Interior Department contract brings Physicist Gourdine back into the public eye. In 1952, while still a physics student at Cornell, "Flash" Gourdine went to the Olympic Games at Helsinki and won a silver medal in the broad jump...
...Pardee and Lynch, both sidelined with ankle injuries, they are pointing for next month's AAU meet. Pardee jumped 6-8 on a sprained ankle last week, and won the broad jump and triple jump as well. With training and a sound ankle, he could easily repeat his 7-foot jump in the AAU's and win a place on the team that will face Russia this summer...