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...students, Wayne L. Johnson '84 and Peter B. Strong '85, were hospitalized at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, Mass. Johnson suffered a fractured bone in his spine from being thrown from the car as it rolled over, he said. Strong added that he tore tendons in his knee and has a broken...
...Fates three times since the 1950s, and each time the Crimson paid dearly for its civilian hubris. In the 1980 meeting, the first since the Cold War began, the 12-point underdog Cantabs actually pulled off a 15-10 upset...and lost starting quarterback Brian Buckley to a knee injury. He was the first of four Harvard quarterbacks wounded in action...
Leftfielder Tim Raines leads the league with 73 steals, but Slugger Andre Dawson (.306) has been in and out of the lineup with a knee problem. Says Third Baseman Tim Wallach, who recently emerged from a batting slump: "Now it's not just a star or two, but nine players every day." The real pressures are mental, claims Virdon, who declared a double victory last week even before the war was over. Said he: "We've managed to stay on top and retain our sanity." Virdon spoke too soon; his team immediately dropped back to third by losing...
People with no desire to hang around may prefer chairs designed to take pressure off the back. Among the hottest sellers are Balans chairs, Norwegian imports that retail for $180 to $550. They are actually stools with a seat and a padded knee rest sloped in a way that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides...
...result of this disappointing encounter. I reasoned that there are two types of women who call themselves feminists: the ecumenical type, who believes in freedom of expression and the right of each woman to find dignity and fulfillment in whatever path she chooses: and the more prevalent knee-jerk feminist who is quick to condemn any woman who looks and lives differently from herself, and who is unwilling to make an effort to recognize the person behind the makeup and hairdo. This type of feminist has a close-minded and superficial approach which can border at times on censorship...