Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard heavyweight crew, spring vacation has been one of the best weeks in the year. During those seven days of double practice and the accompanying "cumulative fatigue," the crew finally came together into the famed "Harvard racing machine" --a machine that Coach Harry Parker has led to a 70-6 career record and a century-old tradition of pre-eminence...
This psychological intensity, combined with top-level coaching and seven months of unrelieved practice, comes to a head during racing season. Beginning this weekend, when the crew competes in the San Diego Classic regatta, all the emotion cascades in a series of six-minute races that seem to suspend time. The concentrated pre-race tension is just the beginning. "It's hell on the starting line," grimaces Doug Wood, "The idea of the agony you're going to go through for six minutes is enough to make you quit. And there's always the extra pressure of a Harvard tradition...
...also began actions yesterday to avoid future cooling system breakdowns in other nuclear plants around the country. The commission ordered officials at seven nuclear plants to explain their plans to prevent accidents similar to the one at Three Mile Island last Wednesday...
...great advance for Iranian women; in fact it proved very difficult to enforce. In 1975, a second version of the law was enacted to work out some of these difficulties. In the case of divorce, fathers or grandfathers have custody of children over the age of two (boys) and seven (girls). Marriage before 18 for women is forbidden, but allowed at 15 in special circumstances. To take a second wife, a man may plead nine special circumstances, including "consent of the first wife" and "wife's insubordination to husband." The most radical changes: women were permitted to divorce their...
...evidence of the Marx comic book which has been translated into seven languages and has sold 150,000 copies worldwide, the Donald Duck part of the effort is a success. Produced by award-winning Mexican Political Cartoonist Eduardo del Rio under the pseudonym Rius, the book relies on a barnyard of impish figures to add humor to the story of "Charlie" Marx ("Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?"one character asks early on). The book dances quickly through a field as woolly as the history of philosophy prior to Marx. For example, France...