Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lounge upstairs, drivers pass the time shooting pool or watching TV. Afternoons, a handful of drivers usually hang around the call board, smoking and talking. On the board are buttons that connect them directly with the Georgia offices of 29 nationwide freight carriers. "May I have your attention, please," an amplified female voice will vibrate through the room. "Anybody with a reefer interested in going to New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, please come to the desk." What a driver hauls depends partly on his truck. "Reefer" is jargon for a semi that carries refrigerated items, flatbeds tend...
...Crimson's Tim Maximoff, Jack Gauthier, and Steve Schramm all broke Hopkins pool records during the early slaughter. Maximoff followed Harvard's victorious medley relay with his standard-breaker (16:04.48) in the 1,650-yd. freestyle to give the Crimson a 12-4 cushion after two events...
...another Yardling, Ron Raikula, splashed to an impressive two-and-a-half second victory in the next race, the 200-yd. individual medley. Recently-returned sophomore sensation Julian Mack continued the Crimson string of triumphs by blasting across the pool and back in a scant 21.92 seconds...
Steve Schramm, who is surpassed only by Cornell's Paul Steck among Eastern divers in his acrobatic excellence on the springboards, smashed the pool record in both the one- and three-meter diving events, with totals of 305.35 and 328.0, respectively. The tandem of Schramm and senior Jamie Greacen swept both competitions, although the Crimson coaches had long-since ceased rolling up the points by the time the three-meter contest rolled around and entered their stars only as exhibition...
...growing somehow. At Blodgett Pool, the ITT, and especially among Radcliffe students. I hear Crimson catchwords much more often...