Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come to expect a climax in the things we view, and usually a happy one. We are indignant if Superman allows Lois Lane to be undone by a buzz-saw, or if the U.S. Calvary and Rin Tin Tin don't beat the shit out of the Indians. So one's sense of propriety was jarred this weekend when Cooney Weiland's illustrious hockey career ended not with Harvard's first NCAA championship, but with an unbelievable 6-5 loss to Minnesota, and then a 1-0 defeat the next afternoon. Where was God, or Cecil DeMille for that matter...
Roann Costin and Connie Cervilla qualified in two individual events as well as swimming on the freestyle relay. Costin finished third in the 200 yard freestyle and fourth in the 100 yard freestyle. Cervilla overcame the handicap of an outside lane to take a third in the 50 yard butterfly and a sixth in the 100 yard butterfly...
...Johnson and Nixon Administrations' Transportation Secretaries (Alan S. Boyd and John A. Volpe) routinely approved a concrete invasion of the city's 342-acre Overton Park, which includes a zoo, golf course and wooded areas with footpaths. The Secretaries authorized federal funding for a 2.4-mile, six-lane section of Interstate 40. Though it was to have been built mostly below ground level, the road would have destroyed 26 acres of the park...
...three-day meet is being taped for viewing on educational television, and Koocher an official timer in lane six, told excitedly about walking in front of the camera several times...
...police van passed the marchers about every fiveminutes. As the demonstrators marched down Cambridge St., one van, apparently trying to clear a lane of traffic, accelerated suddenly into a group of marchers, almost hitting them. This elicited cries of "Fucking pigs...