Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leggett had a tremendous day as he captured the triple crown in the three-race regatta. Tufts had a slim lead going into the third race until Leggett came through giving the Harvard squad the tying points...
...Crimson harriers had the meet seemingly in hand going into the fourth mile, holding a slim 27-28 lead. But although Keefe was able to overtake Buckley, the Floras were also able to move up and capture several places...
...summer seller that people are still reading and discussing is a slim nonbook titled The Best. Compiled by two Columbia professors, Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best is neither the Reader's Digest version of The Best and the Brightest nor a capsule Social Register. The Best is, at bottom-which is just three-quarters of an inch from the top-a shallow smattering of opinion and data based on a surfeit of snobbism and a poverty of research. The professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing...
...more physically endowed, comes a different sort of hero. Eric Crone was such a man. Crone, the quite-often-inconsistent quarterback of Joe Restic's razzle-dazzle ball club, gained immortality among the Crimson football faithful during the Yale game of 1971. With Harvard ahead by a slim lead and little time remaining on the clock, Crone was sent in to eat up time. Eric managed, however, to take the ball into his own end zone and was thumped for a safety. From then on he would be known as "Endzone" Crone, a name he lived with throughout his unspectacular...
...Democratic Congressman from Virginia. The team was said to be organizing a talent search, but its main task was to advise Ford on how to reorganize the White House staff and streamline its operations. Among the recommendations the team is expected to make to the President this week: drastically slim down the White House bureaucracy, which, under Richard Nixon, grew from 220 to almost 510; reduce the power of the Office of Management and Budget which, under Nixon, had usurped the policymaking functions of many departments and agencies; restore the operating authority of the Cabinet, which had atrophied considerably under...