Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lightweights have departed from the traditional American style of rowing this year in favor of the slower more constant stroking motion practiced by many European crews. Parker adapted this European style for Harvard heavyweight crews last season. The switch-over proved somewhat difficult for the lightweight oarsmen earlier in the fall, but Weber says that they have now taken to the new style very well...
...Terrell fight was scared out of New York, Chicago, Miami, Louisville, and Huron. S.D., before it settled on the safe side of the border in Toronto. Amid the coast-to-coast chorus of National Anthem singing, the Chuvalo-for-Terrell switch barely made enough noise to get into the newspapers...
...shadowing that had to be put up with in Rumania, our people suffered no pressures, were allowed to work freely for the most part. Perhaps the worst experience they encountered was that old Balkan bugaboo of night driving with the lights now off, now on. The trick is to switch the lights off and use those of the approaching car. Trouble is that the approaching car is playing the same game and, as Rademaekers recalls, "cars roll blindly at each other for sickening seconds before flicking their lights on again...
...flooded with light," says Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s professor of visual design. "We switch light on and off, send it where we will, and when we will, negate it. We project, reflect, fix, focus, chop, diffuse and scatter it. Why, then, are we not struck by the realization that the palette of a stupendous new civic art has been put in our hands...
...possible that though the majority of freshman assigned to a House will be happy there, a few will want strongly to leave even after a year's trial. Perhaps the solution would be to make the system more flexible by allowing a single opportunity for dissatisfied students to switch Houses, perhaps at the end of their sophomore year. If the Houses are indeed capable of satisfying most of their residents, then there will be very few transfers. Rather than the old system's rigid choices based on hearsay, the new system would then provide a flexible safety valve based...