Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ubiquitous azalea. Teetering on skateboards, the young skittered along paved river levees. The largest crowd (54,000) ever to watch a horse race in the Deep South whooped for the favorite at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs, and were rewarded when their choice, Clev Er Tell, won. In Round Top, Texas (pop. 64), visitors from Houston, looking for an excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants out of old buckets, ice chests and garden tools. "Hey, you know where...
...every salvo from the critics, though, a return round comes from defenders of recombinant DNA research. Bernard Davis, a Harvard Medical School microbiologist, is so sure the new technique is safe that he has publicly offered to drink recombinant DNA. He insists that those who worry about infections are totally ignorant of medicine's long history of safely handling highly contagious bacteria and viruses. Nor, he says, do they understand how difficult it is for a microbe to become pathogenic. He adds: "Those who claim we are letting loose an Andromeda strain are either hysterics or are trying...
...linksmen had to swallow a disappointing third place finish as a team behind Princeton and Yale. Harvard came into the clubhouse after first round action trailing the Elis by a mere stroke and two strokes ahead of the Tigers. Fighting mounting gusts over the 6,317 yard layout in East Providence, the linksters' scores spiraled in the afternoon, as they finished with an aggregate score of 620, nine strokes back of Princeton...
Playing at number three for the Crimson, freshman Jim Dales netted a 36 hole total of 159. Dave Paxton, a laconic Kentuckian, was hitting the ball sweetly during his morning round of 75 but ballooned to a costly 87 the second time around. Jon Chase strung round of 85 and 83, as his first eighteen was marred by a quadruple bogey when his ball embedded under the lip of a bunker...
Whether he is playing in this Andalusian golfing paradise or on New England's windburned fairways. Vik seems to come up with the clutch round. His second round 69 yesterday was not quite good enough, but nevertheless, ole Captain Ajax...