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...shirt in the rain to places like Jacksonville and Tampa and Cocoa. One time he said he was stopped by a state trooper on the interstate. "I didn't think he could see me in the rain," said Kenny, "but I couldn't outrun him so I pulled over. I had been runnin without lights, but he was sitting by a bridge and heard this sound go by real fast, although he couldn't see anything. He caught up with me after a couple miles and that was that. I told him, 'I just had a big argument with...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...team into a top defensive club. "I've had to alter my theories on defense," he says. "To be defensive, you need a physically tough center and toughness at other positions. We can't be tough with DiGregorio at guard and McAdoo at center. Instead, we outrun and outshoot our opponents." When that is not working, Ramsay outyells them. He is the champion head rubber and tantrum thrower in the N.B.A., collecting. an average of one technical foul every other game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Braves' New World | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...time of day a kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Westward Ho! | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...bilingual brochure, "Harvard and Japan," John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History and director of EAS, and Reischauer explain the United States and Japan face the danger that their economic interdependence and need for close cooperation in many fields will outrun their mutual understanding...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: Asian Center Funds Sought By Reischauer | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...course, the prospects for an academic are such that someone just out of the GSAS is unlikely to be able to pay off student loans as readily as a graduate of the Law School or Business School. But the Faculty, while admitting that the cost of graduate education has outrun inflation, maintains that a Harvard Ph.D., as good as any credential for a young academic, is comparatively cheap...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Double-Think | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

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