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...while, she lived in a custom 8-ft. by 28-ft., self-propelled motor home with her constant companions?a miniature gray poodle named Jacques and a huge, dignified Scottish deerhound named Ghillie. She moored the $18,000 bus on a dairy farm in Maryland. A Government limousine would pull up every morning, and Ray and her two dogs would be whisked to the AEC offices. At her suggestion, the AEC was reorganized in 1975 into two agencies and Ray then moved on to become Assistant Secretary of State for scientific affairs. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dodged...
...hoopsters play Detroit, coached by Dick Vitale, in the first round of the Motor City Classic over Christmas vacation. Led by bluechipper Kevin Long, the Titans are ranked 18th in the nation by SI. Detroit posted a 25-4 mark last season, the best in the school's history and defeated NCAA champ Marquette and NIT titlist St. Bonaventure en route to winning 21 consecutive games. The streak was snapped by Michigan in the NCAA tourney before the largest television audience ever to watch a sports event in the state...
...highly touted diverse student body, has within its current population two men bitten by the racing bug and actively pursuing careers in the sport. Gordon Medenica '73, a first-year student at the Business School, and David Aronson '79 are manager and assistant manager, respectively, of the Gordon Medenica Motor Racing team. Last season, the Medenica team, piloted by driver Herne, won the New England regional Formula Ford road racing championship...
Logically enough, each member of the Medenica team got involved in motor racing through a childhood fascination with automobiles. "I was just always into cars," Medenica says. "At 12, I was into slot cars. When I got my license, I drove fast...it's a long continuum that just kept building." "It's basically the same for me as for Gordon, although I never thought of racing until my brother took me to a race at Watkins Glen, when I figured it was something I wanted to do," Herne says...
...motor racing. "It's one thing to be into S&M here, but motor racing is something entirely beyond their ken," Aronson says. "Part of that is due to their misconceptions about racing--they think it's just going round and round a track." As Herne jokes, "Harvard students automatically put racers on the greaser level...