Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practiced four hours each day.) The women were assigned to the lanes under the diving board, often at the same time that Harvard's divers practiced. Occasionally, several Radcliffe swimmers say, they arrived for practice and found the men's team in their lanes. Harvard swim coach Ray Essick did not order his swimmers to clear the lanes, they say, and many Radcliffe swimmers often left rather than argue...
With a job that requires no skills beyond a healthy chest x-ray, the employer could have fired the whole lot that Sunday morning, and hired enough beer and dog men to work the next homestand without any difficulty...
Newly armed with a knowledge of 8-to-10 pin cables, mike mixers and battery packs, Fayard recruited Reporter-Researchers Jean Vallely and Edward Tivnan, Production Assistant Leonard Schulman and Ray Kennedy, a ringer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S writing staff, to be the cast of "The Stickball Show," a celebration of New York City's favorite street game. With Reporter-Researcher Audrey Ball on hand as crew-person, Fayard taped a half-hour extemporaneous discussion of stickball paraphernalia, followed by a spirited demonstration of the game. After holding the 20-lb. camera for a while, says Fayard...
...pursuing about nine different actions at one time. If you look at his court calendar, it's mystifying that he was able to make as many effective appearances as he did. It was a marathon performance under the most intense pressure and in the full X-ray glare of the media." For all this, St. Clair had resigned from his law firm and served at a $42,500 annual salary-far below the estimated $200,000 he would have earned in Boston...
...come to most of the Midwest, leading one weather forecaster in Des Moines, Iowa, to announce that the drought was over. If so, farmers might yet squeeze higher yields out of corn already planted. But most farm experts remain discouraged. "So much damage has already been done," says Billy Ray Gowdy, commissioner of agriculture in Oklahoma, where farmers are worried that there will not be enough rain for a good sorghum harvest and that the soil will be far too dry to plant a new crop of winter wheat...