Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American lightweight crew, which includes Harvard oarsmen Steven Heller, Lief Soderberg and Ned Reynolds, won a hard fought victory over Canada's national lightweight squad by one-half length, taking 6 minutes 17.5 seconds for the 2000 meter course...
...engineer to contribute." That was no problem, to judge by the number of engaging but totally impracticable suggestions that flooded into Arco's Los Angeles headquarters. For instance, a Chino, Calif., contributor, Dale Jennings, suggested that ardent energy savers be allowed to ride "Bumper-Snatchers"-lightweight pedicabs that could be hooked onto the bumpers of gas-guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction...
...Huckster. The Seattle Opera is accustomed to thinking along several lines. In only eleven years it has become one of the major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
Seven men of Harvard will be among the members of the U.S. national crew team when the team defends its heavyweight and lightweight world champion titles at Nottingham, England, next month...
Kiss of Death. The killer or killers acted with methodical precision, leaving the police with few clues beyond seven .22-cal. shell casings. A lightweight .22 is not the sort of artillery that the Mafia usually employs, leading to speculation that an embittered girl friend, of whom he had many, might have done him in. Or it might have been someone with whom he had been involved in the Castro caper who feared exposure. As for any possible CIA complicity, Director William Colby said: "We had nothing to do with...