Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert and in just five minutes I had flagged down my first car. I had never hitchhiked before, but this was easy. The middle-aged occupant had once had a multimillion dollar turquoise business, but he'd lost it all through some bad breaks, including his back and left leg, and had traded in his 1976 Jag for a 1960 Rambler. He took me to a gas station in Gallup, where two Mexicans in a pickup truck let me ride in the back and either watch New Mexico fade away backwards, or, if I turned around, to watch the driver...
Then I wrote this column that said Harvard was going to much on the Columbia Lions like so many fried shrimp on the first leg of an Ivy title march, or else I'd eat my byline. Well, you can see by the looks of things at the top of this piece that it's not just turkey tetrazzini I've been snacking on these days...
...gutsiest showing came from captain Linsley, who failed to fold despite a leg injury, coming home seventh with an 18:30 time. And when Kristin took 11th in 19:16, just ahead of a field of red UMass shirts, Harvard had the victory...
Leading the herd, senior Ed Sheehan crossed the tape in fifth place at 29:39. And Peter Fitzsimmons is back. Fitzie, rebounding from leg injuries, came home a close seventh, bettering his time from Saturday's meet by a full minute...
Most of the Harvard thinclads bunched early and stayed clumped together behind the leaders most of the course. The pack ran together up to the four-mile mark, not spreading out until the final leg. Fitzsimmons and Sheehan moved ahead of the other Crimson competitors, while Thad McNulty, who had led the Harvard contingent at one point, dropped back...