Word: loops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opponents awaiting coach Bob Harrison's squad, Columbia, the Crimson's Saturday foe, will offer the most resistance before rolling over. The Lions under coach Jack Rohan are 4-11 for the season and 2-2 in the league. Needless to say, the two loop victories came at the expense of Cornell in back-to-back Ivy games last week, 68-59 at Columbia and 66-62 at Cornell...
...response to a request by the U.S. Navy for an improved way to handle wastes aboard ships. "We didn't want anything to go overboard," says Ralph Loomis, project manager of Chrysler's waste treatment systems in Michoud, La. "We decided we had to have a closed-loop system...
Indeed, some of her best pieces hardly become "art" at all. Hangup, 1965-66, is a rectangular frame, "tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...
...help." Thus Cliff Retis, 23, described the horror of last week's commuter-train collision in Chicago in which 44 people were killed and 350 injured. A train of new double-decker cars overshot a flag-stop station four miles from the Illinois Central commuter terminal in the Loop and began backing up to the platform. Apparently a following train of heavy older cars was not properly warned. The lead coach of the second train slammed into the last coach of the double-decker, shearing off the lower level of seats and passengers. Flags in the city were flown...