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Harvard's varsity hockey team will face its first opponent of a strenuous weekend road trip tonight when the Crimson travels to Canton, N.Y., to meet St. Lawrence...
NASA has traditionally chosen its spacemen from the ranks of test pilots in top physical condition. As it moves into the age of the space shuttle, which will make less strenuous physical demands upon passengers, the agency is now contemplating relaxing its medical requirements so that it will be able to send more people into space. Of the women subjects, all were single, and all were Air Force flight nurses between 24 and 34 years of age. The only strict requirement was made to preserve body-chemistry balance: none of the nurses were permitted to use the Pill...
Despite the controversy, the fact remains that Kissinger and Tho had indeed concluded a difficult and complex agreement that effectively removed American troops from combat. Whether or not the agreement will lead to peace is uncertain, but the strenuous efforts of Kissinger and Tho in Paris were at the very least a move in the right direction...
Last year Radcliffe transformed its low-key rowing program into one of championship calibre. Baker, who rowed for the men's heavyweight varsity when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, brought the strenuous no-nonsense tactics of men's rowing to Radcliffe...
...radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not make it impossible for them to bail out of jail, wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: liberal students headed for law school could not avoid a career-crippling arrest by steering clear of militant demonstrations and still contribute meaningfully to ending the was by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...