Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season operns at MIT on September 20 followed by the first Ivy League test, with Columbia on September 23. The big game of the early going will be against Connecticut, in its stadium which is fondly referred to as a pit. UConn has been one of the top three teams in New England for the last five years and a Crimson win would say much about chances later against Dartmouth and Brown...
...Athletic Meeting for all freshment intersted in intercollegiate athletics, Indoor Athletic Building, top floor. Now you can see what a pit the IAB is and why the basketball team has never been too inspired...
...Friday, Aug. 11, acting on the advice of meteorologists, the trio lifted off from Presque Isle-and nearly crashed. Hitting a pocket of warm, light air, the balloon dipped sharply down over a gravel pit before recovering. By Monday evening, with all going well, the balloonists were 600 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with...
...into their corporate lives. "Fifteen years ago, the businessman was told that politics is dirty, you shouldn't get involved," observes Albert Abrahams, chief lobbyist for the influential National Association of Realtors. "Now they know if you want to have a say, you've got to get in the pit...
...Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind of scored one for the amateurs and for the old folks," he boasts. Chandler's finishing position: a respectable...