Word: racing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political seismographs throughout the U.S. have long been tuned to record any tremor signaling the quake that would rock the presidential campaign of 1980: the entrance of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy into the race. Last week the Kennedy-watch instruments detected rumblings that made a party-rending announcement seem ever more likely, if not imminent...
...Senator has also worried lest a presidential race would leave him insufficient time to carry out the responsibilities he has assumed to aid the 13 children of his two slain brothers,* as well as his and Joan's three children. The family reassurance presumably eased that problem...
...great that we're both having good years, but I'd like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going out and playing catch...
...meter contest. Senior Charlie Altekruse, the Harvard captain this year, says, "We knew even before the Sprints that they were a big, strong crew and they could take it out early. That's what they did. They were able to hold on in the middle of the race, and in such a short race, they could push...
...Altekruse notes that such a strategy would not work as well in the four-mile Sexton Cup encounter. "We knew that in a four-mile race, if we could hold them in the middle two miles, they couldn't be so psyched to pull away at the end," he says...