Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here some two dozen agile stunt men sustain the casualties for both sides, making death look like an Olympian test of skill. Their tardy efforts to save Major Dundee from mediocrity rival the gesture of Actor Heston who, with a perhaps excessive sense of responsibility, returned his $200,000 salary to Columbia Pictures to pay for last-minute improvements in the film. Alas, the bread thus cast upon the waters seems to have sunk without a trace...
...original patron of the civil rights movement, Thomas speaks with a special sophistication and sensitivity about the plight of the American Negro. He pleads that "whites should not be Olympian" in assigning value to various civil rights organizations, and he has divided his contributions among almost all major existing groups. He is confident about the nation's progress in race relations, which has inclined him to favor less extreme actions; he was opposed, for example, to the recent situation in the White House. Thomas states that "there is no commandment 'thou shalt demonstrate,'" and he counsels against universal adoption...
...downhill, the Crimson placed a disappointing eighth, while scoring a high ninety-one points. Ex-Olympian Gordy Eaton of Middlebury won the event in 78.8 seconds; Harvard's top scorer was Steve Blodgett who placed fourteenth with a time of 84.5 seconds. Middlebury won the event...
...biggest races of the afternoon may be in the freshman meet, which starts at 2 p.m. Yardling Bill Shrout, holder of four University records, will undoubtedly meet Yale's Olympian Don Schollander in either the 100 or 200 yard freestyles. Shrout, who chalked up times of 48.1 and 1:47.5 early in the season, has a good chance for the upset of the year...
Harvard's captain and distance freestyler star, Dave Abramson, will unfortunately not swim this afternoon because of an injured shoulder. Abramson is undefeated in the 500 against Yale. Last year he put on a stunning performance to upset Olympian Dave Lyons with a time...