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...difficult as all this may be for the Vice President to handle personally, surely an adviser or two has pointed out the side benefits of being thought a perpetual lightweight--minimal press scrutiny or public awareness of what he really does. This is particularly true with regard to one of the most significant of Quayle's activities off the golf course, the President's Council on Competiveness, which he heads. Danny Boy has a record, and it's a scary...
Crew was by far the most well-represented sport, with 12 athletes and men's lightweight coach Charlie Butt and women's novice coach Holly Hatton competing for medals...
...taken to Mount Weather and hung on the walls there, arranged not by artist or period but by the size of the canvas. Curators were worried, however, that the site's humidity would destroy the paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery's senior conservator, designed an ingenious lightweight metal container on wheels that one person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with devices for removing the paintings from the walls swiftly, as well as flashlights...
...carpeting, upholstered furniture, heavy curtains, venetian blinds, fuzzy wool blankets and comforters stuffed with wool or feathers. Empty the room, scrub it and everything that is to be returned to it, and thereafter thoroughly clean the room every week. If replacing curtains, hang some that are lightweight and can be laundered weekly. Replace the comfortable chairs with wooden or metal ones that can be scrubbed, keep clothing in plastic zippered bags and shoes in closed boxes off the floor. Talk about suffering...
...Women's Lightweight Crew vs. Wellesley...