Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NCAA's Faller will go down a weight class to 158. After a week of hard workouts, he weighed in at 160 at Penn State, and with two weeks remaining before the nationals, he should be able to accustom himself to the lighter weight...
Family of Flies. In a lighter mood, Scanlan's accompanies a health inspector on a kitchen tour of Manhattan restaurants. Next to stars awarded by New York Times Gourmet Craig Claiborne, Scanlan's gives its own uncleanliness symbols: garbage cans. The worst offender (three stars, four garbage cans): the outwardly elegant Colony, where "in the bakeroom a family of flies was eating out of open bowls of strawberries in heavy syrup...
Defending heavyweight House champion Gary Farneti will have as his opponent Kent Hales of Quincy House, Farneti, outstanding football linebacker, weighs in at 215; Hales, uncontested champion of the 185-1b. House division, is 35 pounds lighter at 180. Hales, who has been training ruggedly, switched to the higher weight class Monday in an attempt to win a dual championship...
They are probably right. Americium emits almost exclusively alpha particles, the nuclei of helium atoms produced by the isotope's slow decay into lighter elements. The alpha particles are so weak that they remain confined inside the victim's body. While contagion is virtually impossible, this is only slight comfort to the victims. As americium spreads through the body, it may linger in such areas as the liver, spleen and lymph system and eventually settle into the marrow of the bones. According to Pittsburgh Radiologist Niel Wald, a leading radiation specialist, the effect over a year-long period...
Tennis fans have loved every mean minute of it. They forgive his outbursts as part of his almost fanatical passion for winning, a feat that now takes as much heart as art. He has made concessions. He uses a lighter aluminum racket. He cuts the pockets out of his tennis shorts lest they get soggy with sweat and weigh him down. And he has taken to rigorous training, practicing three hours daily and jogging around his eight-acre Pancho Gonzalez Tennis Ranch in Malibu, Calif. As for court tactics, he likens himself to an aging boxer who can no longer...