Word: strains
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Harman and the other lightweights endure the double strain of crew and losing weight. Lights must have an average weight of 155 and no man in the boat can weigh over 160, Many oarsmen begin the winter at a normal weight of 180. They run, they row, they sweat, they diet, and then they run some more to lose the necessary pounds...
...binds in the future. A policy of pre-emptive concession is needed first-a system sufficiently alert to spot legitimate complaints early and flexible enough to satisfy them before the atmosphere becomes desperate. If this existed, not only would the nation's central nervous system be spared dangerous strain but the cost would probably be less...
Schools and busing are Wichita's chief focus of racial strain, as they are for so many U.S. cities. Of 13,000 children who ride school buses, 3,000 do so for purposes of integration. Some 1,000 white mothers clutching preschool tots with I DON'T WANT TO BE BUSED placards recently marched on the board of education headquarters and dispersed only after reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison. The school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Morris, insists that "there is a national revolutionary group at work." "It's not a matter of racial prejudice," Mayor...
...that depend primarily on subscriptions were immediately damaged. The garment industry, which deals heavily in mail orders demanding immediate filling, was also disrupted. The telephone and telegraph became ever more valuable, but telephone facilities in New York were already taxed to capacity before the strike started. How much extra strain they could absorb was uncertain. Department stores, some of which get 85% of their accounts receivable through the mail, were cut off from their major sources of cash...
...Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young Negro who now is conductor of the New Jersey Symphony. Though her white friends warned her against it, black-white hostilities have been little problem. What caused a strain, Marilyn admits, was not an interracial marriage but an interartistic marriage. "We stay away from each other before concert time," she says. "Until we learned that, it nearly ruined...