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...Bubble, which had a modern tartan track, was one of the best indoor facilities in New England. Okerman says it motivated Harvard trackmen to attend practices regularly throughout the winter months. But "nobody wants to come down to Briggs to work out," he says. In fact, Okerman claims some of the injuries suffered by runners on the track team this winter may have been caused by the poor quality of the dirt track in Briggs Cage...
...three-hour anniversary ceremony at Kampala's Nakivubo football stadium held late last month was as bizarre and ludicrous as its sponsor. Along with the traditional drums and dancers, the center of attention was Amin's "Black Watch," a motley assortment of Ugandan soldiers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts, tunics, diced glengarries and plastic sporrans decorated with pied crow feathers. A dozen Africans puffed Scotland the Brave on bagpipes-a measure of Amin's admiration for the Scots, which dates back to his days in the British army...
...squad to look out for is Harvard's churning mile relay team. The ace baton club has been clicking off times in the vicinity of 3:16, and on Penn's tartan turf, Sam Butler, Nick Leone, Joel Peters, and Steve Brown will probably crash the 3:15 barrier. If so, Leone should be snapping the tape at the relay's finish line...
When night fell on the Boston College tartan track, the final stats showed Harvard with 151 points to Northeastern's 63, Boston College's 53, and a few other colleges with a smattering of points...
...over the country, gathering in groups of 15 or 20, just talking about policy and the issues and enjoying themselves." North Sea oil, with its promise of doubling the country's revenues from whisky (some $250 million annually in sales to the U.S. alone), ships, foodstuffs and tartan knits, became the Nationalists' crunching argument. With annual profits of $1.5 billion expected to flow in from the North Sea by 1980, the Nationalists argued that Scotland could manage without the economic support that Westminster has poured into the country since...