Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atelier is like trying to decide whether a ??? was done by Andy Warhol? or a member of his company, Andy Film. Inc. But this "who done it" is the ??? question that the Fogg Art Museum has tried to answer in its current exhibition of Gi?mbattista Ti?polo...
...Dominican Republic, six smartly uniformed guerrillas seized a U.S. air attaché, Lieut. Colonel Donald J. Crowley, 47, from the very polo field in Santo Domingo where the first U.S. Marines were helicoptered in during the 1965 intervention. Crowley's kidnapers threatened to kill him unless the government of President Joaquin Balaguer released 24 prisoners. After two days of haggling, the government placed 20 prisoners aboard an aircraft bound for Mexico City, and the kidnapers released Crowley blindfolded from an automobile. He was still wearing the riding boots, khaki pants and white jersey he had worn 21 days earlier...
Harvard's polo team. whose loss to Yale last Thursday at the Intercollegiate lowered its season's record to 2-3, goes after the squad that provided the Crimson's two victories-Pennsylvania-at the Andover Riding Academy Saturday night...
...spit-and-polish product of Britain's Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Gowon is sometimes dismissed as "Jack the Boy Scout" in Lagos diplomatic circles. He neither smokes nor drinks, keeps his 5-ft. 10-in. frame trim at 140 Ibs. by playing squash or polo every day, and laces his conversation with such mission-school phrases as "goodness me." He once apologized to newsmen for saying "hell" and added, "I forgot that I am a soldier." When asked how he hoped to be remembered for his conduct of the war, he replied, "I want to feel that...
...dean at Harvard and an outstanding polo player, his father's portrait hangs in the National Museum of the Racing Hall of Fame, and his sister was named one of racing's five international Grand Dames by Sports Illustrated...