Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newnham strode away with the individual title and defending champion Sullivan placed third, but Princeton's team depth enabled it to score a 31-42 victory in the meet...
...race marked this season's third meeting between Harvard's Newnham and Sullivan and Princeton's star, Lynn Jennings. Jennings had defeated both Crimson harriers in earlier duels at the Big Three meet and at last week's Eastern Championships. Saturday she established a fast pace early, and by the two-mile mark, held a seemingly insurmountable lead...
...killer never reached the top. Law enforcement officials figure that Lillo now will be lucky just to keep on living and that his best chance of doing so rests upon protection from federal agents-the hated enemies who have kept him locked up for more than 20 years, one-third of his life...
...scale, Kutztown's median of $21,600 lords it over Oberlin's $16,700, Smith's $17,500 and Yale's $20,000. Harvard is second in faculty "quality," since it pays a median salary of $27,200, while the California Institute of Technology is third, with $25,700. No. 1 is the University of Alaska, which pays top intellectual dollar, an average of $27,800, to lure academics to far-off Fairbanks...
...some good news about U.S. industry's competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...