Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Notables: MIT's Eugene Opasnick is the first Engineer rifle shooter in four years to make the NCAA Championships. He fired a 380 (out of 400) in air rifle to place among the top 37 competitors in the nation, securing himself a spot at the Division I Championships in Lexington, Va., to be held this weekend...
...Harvard Bridge Team earned the number one spot on the World Bridge Federation's ranking of university teams, the federation announced this week. No other American team made the top 10 of the federation, which is the primary governing body of university bridge teams...
...trophy for the annual ECAC Women's All-Star Game. The game, played a week after the ECAC women's hockey tournament, was held in Bright Hockey Center and was won by Sasner's team, 6-4...Harvard and Olympic hockey player Lane MacDonald recorded a 30-second spot for the NCAA recently. The message warned against drugs and alcohol...Philadelphia Flyer goalie Ron Hextall's goal last December against the Boston Bruins had a parallel in the college hockey ranks--but better. Jim Tortorella, who played goal for Maine in the late 1970s, scored (get this) a shorthanded goal...
...properties are four radio stations in New York and Connecticut and a national closed-circuit television system that broadcasts horse and dog races onto screens at tracks and betting parlors. His large California real estate holdings include a $20 million home and a 157-acre site on the highest spot in Beverly Hills, where he is building a mansion. He continues to run Merv Griffin Enterprises, the TV production firm that he sold to Coca-Cola in 1986 for a reported $250 million. All told, the chairman of Griffin Co., which manages the business ventures that he still owns...
...blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that in 1969 CBS offered him $80,000 a week for a show opposite Carson...