Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailing teams continues operations from the fall, but big shots on the Charles travel in shells, powered by oars. If you have physical endurance and any sort of aptitude for the sport, you should be able to make one of the twelve lightweight or heavyweight, freshmen or upperclass men's boats. Similar opportunities prevail at Weld Boathouse, where the Radcliffe light and heavyweights ship out (yes, "Radcliffe"--the oarswomen remain the only women's athletic squad that shuns the title "Harvard women...
...watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every bit as lightweight as Mike Douglas-though at least he refrains from picking up a hand mike and belting out songs...
CREW CHAT: Lightweight coach John Higginson has announced his retirement after six seasons at the helm, four Eastern Sprint crowns, and an outstanding 24-3 record...Jeff Cooley has been elected to the lightweight captain's post for the '79 campaign...Harvard lightweight four and junior varsity eight invade Henley Regatta in England this week.... Radcliffe lights competing in Nationals at Seattle...
...other candidate can claim that kind of endorsement. But Bradley, 34, a Rhodes scholar who is playing his celebrity status to the hilt, is plagued by his image as a lightweight in politics. Campaigning 16 hours a day, he squeezes arms, pats backs and shakes hands. His pitch is that he is not "cut from the same mold" as most politicians-a point that rings true. His chief opponent in the Democratic primary, former State Treasurer Richard Leone, 38, argues that Bradley is too inexperienced. The dark, intense Leone holds a Ph.D. in government, teaches at Princeton and boasts...
...news from Weld Boathouse was that Susie Peterson, a junior coxswain, will captain the lightweight squad, and that Becky Goff and Cynthia Strong, also juniors, will lead the heavyweight crew...