Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely recognized to be a shambles. But each successive reform roused the ire of either the faculty or the students or both. Under the law, for example, all professors, who have long reigned supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member...
...huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000 ft.) below the ground. When excavation is completed, the cavern will be lined with synthetic rubber and filled with 10,000 tons of exceptionally pure, filtered water. Then, about two years from now, physicists will begin looking in the pool for flashes of light that could signal the decay of protons, confirm a unifying theory of nature, and end the cherished notion that matter is permanent...
...Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that wool hats and mufflers will soon be de rigueur in the typing pool? Or fingerless gloves? "I'll bring in a space heater before I'll wear those," grumbles a Manhattan secretary.* But she will try thermal underwear beneath her baggy jeans...
...Townshend, who wrote an ironic song about tour life called Romance on the Road, not yet released, is in typical fashion drawn in both directions about it. He can see through the romance like a pool, even as he dives into it. "He's perfectly capable of getting off the plane in New York and staying drunk for the entire tour," says one of his friends. A talk with Townshend at the best of times is a hopscotch game in a minefield. This is part of what he means when he says, with some melodrama and a strong measure...
...freestyle--1. Countryman (H) 4:40.4, 2. Martin (M) 4:42.2, 3. Merrill (M) 4:49.2 200 breaststroke--1. Lundberg (H) 2:07.00 (pool and Harvard University record. Old mark 2:07.45 by Lundberg 12/1/79), 2. Wells (M) 2:09.0, 3. Traub (M) 2:17.03 Three-meter Diving--1. Schramm (H) 294.35, 2. Mule (H) 272.25, 3. Strachan (M) 209.90 400 Freestyle Relay--1. HARVARD (Seelen, Carbone Gauthier, Hackett) 3:09.93 (pool record...