Word: junior
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Some 7,000 students, nearly 3,000 of them girls, compete on teams with a firm no-cut policy. Everyone gets a chance to play. Teams are fielded according to skill level, and a struggle between junior varsity or C-squad basketball teams is as enthusiastically contested as a varsity clash. Cedar Rapids' schoolgirl athletes compete in nine sports, guided by 144 coaches. Access to training equipment is equal too. The result has been unparalleled athletic success. In the past eight years, Cedar Rapids boys and girls teams have finished among the state's top three 68 times, winning...
Brown, the junior hurler from Norwood, Ma., was cited for third team honors. The flame-throwing right-hander posted a 10-1 season slate, along with a 0.85 E.R.A., and struck out 76 in 85 innings. Brown, who also quarter backs the Harvard football team, was in addition honored by his teammates by being elected team captain for next year's squad...
Harvard won the opening combination race (leftover freshmen and junior varsity rowers thrown together in a shell) by four lengths before controversy erupted in the freshman race...
...event of the day for the eighth-grade students at Ken Caryl Junior High School in suburban Denver is the "Great Boil-Over." Under the rules, contestants are pitted against one another to determine who can boil water fastest ?with the least amount of fuel. The exercise is part of a growing trend in U.S. elementary and high schools: instruction in the basics of energy conservation. The aim is to prepare students for a world where energy is no longer cheap or plentiful. Teachers explain how students' fuel-using habits touch on the larger issues of dwindling supplies...
DIED. James Browning Allen, 65, Alabama's junior Senator and a wily parliamentarian who recently helped lead Senate opposition to the Panama Canal treaties; of a heart attack; in Foley, Ala. After rising in state politics to become George Wallace's hand-picked Lieutenant Governor, Allen fought his way past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern...