Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: Sentiments varied over the controversial new policy of running swimming and diving events concurrently. Swimming buffs like it "cause you don't have to sit through the diving," while afficionados feel that "divers don't get the attention they deserve." It is one thing to ask the divers to perform during a long race (like the 1650) while the crowd is relatively quiet, but quite another to expect them to be able to concentrate through the turmoil of crowd noise at finishes and starts and during public address announcements of events. The divers deserve better treatment than that...
...distances get shorter the quality gets thinner. Top sprinter and tri-captain Joe Salvo, who ran his first injury free season for the Crimson last year, is back on the trainer's table with a groin pull. He'll sit out today, but is expected to return soon...
...players are returning from last year's 11-2 squad. In addition. Barnaby has bolstered the lineup Lisa Harrison and Jackie Corrigan Perhaps the biggest coup, however, is the return of versatile Satah Mleczko. Mleczko is one of Harvard's finest athletes, but she chose to sit out last season...
...drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts tax breaks for big business, special treatment that has given the Japanese companies a considerable competitive edge...
...young members of China's Red Guards sit in a self-consciously pretentious coffeehouse in Peking. Between sips of espresso, down in the poorly-lit small room below street level, they discuss...SAT scores...