Word: pentathlon
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This is all standard equipment, but the technicians responsible for the Bond films' felicities-car chases, aerobatics, all the sophisticated paraphernalia of Saturday-matinee thrills-have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only. There is a funny-brutal pentathlon of alpine sports: cross-country skiing with hired assassins; a two-man ski jump with the competitors gouging each other in midair; downhill racing at gunpoint; a bobsled run on skis; ice hockey using players as pucks. Director Glen has kept the plot moving briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within...
...surprise second place finisher in the pentathlon was Crimson speedster Liano Rozzell. Rozzell improved her scores in every single event over her last week's performance against Princeton and Yale, where she finished second to teammate Karen Gray, who was sidelined this week with...
Meanwhile, going on simultaneously and adding even more confusion and congestion to the over-populated meet was the pentathlon, broken up into five separate events around the periphery of the track. Quiet Karen Gray surprised everyone by coming out way on top, an inspiring personal victory for the versatile junior...
PETE RITTENBERG had laid first claim to the 1981 Harvard Iron Man award by nabbing the U.S. Track and Field Federation pentathlon championship on January 25. Rittenberg was in second place after the first three events in the five-part contest but finished strong with firsts in the high jump and the 1000 meter run to cop the title... A day earlier three Harvard thinclads posted personal bests in the annual New York-Boston Invitation Meet. Freshman MARK HENRY won the high jump with a leap of 6 ft., 9 in. In the mile run only a close examination...
Harvard's two top all-around performers Karen Gray and Liane Rossell will be debuting in the grueling Pentathlon. B.U. should have the event locked up with their latest acquisitions, a 23-year-old freshman high jumper who took sixth place in the Montreal Olympics and another older freshman from England who another older freshman from England who long jumps over 18 feet and runs 55-second quarter miles...