Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cavernous, dark, dirty beehive of vehicles, scurrying travellers, hustlers, religious people pushing books and leaflets containing the word of many gods, stores, waiting rooms--and, on the Monday night after spring term finals ended last year, me. I was heading out on the 11 p.m. Greyhound for Los Angeles, pack and sleeping bag on my back and cap on my head. I was looking for America...
After struggling for a while in full pack, I got a cab--all right, it's a bourgeois thing to do, especially when you are trying to be a road person, but I was tried, and the cabbie told me it wouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars. Uh huh. He took me for seven bucks, but I stiffed him on the tip; that should teach him to take advantage of green, Eastern kids...
...first three miles of the loop winding from the south side of the Broadway esplanade around the sandlot baseball diamonds and the historic Van Cortland family mansion, the pack was too tightly bunched to predict the final outcome...
...appears host Princeton and the always-tough Yale Elis will once again lead the pack in the 16-team event that will be run in the ninth wonder of the world, Princeton's underground athletic complex. With three sophomores and a freshman filling four of the six Harvard singles spots, the Crimson prospects are, unpredictable at best; but captain Kevin Shaw, the only senior who'll play singles at the ECACs, said he thinks the team can better its 1977 finish of fifth place...
Improving considerably on his last performance, Fitzsimmons joined fellow seniors Sheehan and Meyer as Harvard's main scoring punch. "Last meet I went out too slow and it cost me," Fitzie said. "This time I stayed with the pack and it helped...