Word: meters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition, Harvard is instituting a paid parking plan-which affects University employees for the first time as well as Faculty and students-on October 1. The charges will range from $10 per year for permission to park in metered areas to $90 for reserved spaces. The University is hiring five "meter maids" to enforce the regulations...
...uprooted a parking meter and began bouncing it on the pavement, trying to break the coin box open. This was too much for the policemen waiting near the Square. Suddenly, at a signal, Mass. Ave filled with cops firing tear gas canisters...
...when the America's Cup begins this week, Brit Chance obviously has enough to spare. Indeed, some old salts find him downright arrogant. Defeating Valiant was one thing, they say, but criticizing the boat's designer. Olin Stephens, 62, the man who practically invented the 12-meter sloop, is akin to lèse-majesté. But Chance isn't listening; he is too busy explaining why Stephens, after designing three of the last four Cup winners, was all but swamped by the new Intrepid. "Olin works very slowly," says Chance. "He gets in trouble with some...
...Jersey's Barnegat Bay, moved on to the E scows his grandfather imported from the Great Lakes. After three years of studying physics at the University of Rochester, he quit school to apply his test-tank theories in open waters. Success came quickly; his innovative 5.5-meter designs, for example, have so far won four world championships, as well as gold and silver medals in the 1968 Olympics...
...meters, it was only logical that the Intrepid syndicate decided to take a chance on Chance. He has been involved with the America's Cup since 1962, when he helped design one boat and crewed on another. Three years ago, he designed an advanced 12-meter, Chanceggar, to serve as a model for the unsuccessful bid of the French to win the Cup. At the time, there was talk that the New York Yacht Club, holders of the Cup, should prevent Chance from aiding a challenger. His reaction is typical: "My own attitude is that if the French...