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While making a routine tank change, Geribo said, he was tightening a valve on the transmission line and detected a slight leak...
...slight leak" was detected by the maintenance worker making the change, and before procedures were completed, a release of chloring began," Francis J. Toland, assistant director of athletics, said in Harvard's only official statement on the matter...
...slight 5'4", 115 lbs., Gately is atypical of the large, sturdy players who tend to dominate the defensive positions. "Because more people expect fullbacks to be slower, I have the advantage of being able to surprise players with my quickness and take the ball away from them," Gately says. "I also used to play offense so I know what they're thinking, and how they're planning to shoot as they run down the field...
There is also Irving the physical phenomenon. He has dark, heartthrob good looks. Though he seems slight-he is 5 ft. 8 in. tall and 155 lbs.-his bulk is imposingly carried in a wedge from shoulders to waist. Not since Hemingway has a well-known American writer worked as hard on his body as he has on his prose. Rarely a day goes by when a bout at the typewriter is not followed by a roll on the mat with his sons, a three-to six-mile run or a session bench-pressing weights until he tires...
Chicago Cubs Pitcher Mike Krukow looked in for the sign, planted his foot on the rubber, gripped the ball and got set to throw. But there was a slight hitch as he began his stretch. The third-base umpire immediately waved home the New York Met base runner standing on third. Thus was scored the first run in the second half of the strike-broken 1981 baseball season. The national pastime returned, not with a bang but a balk...