Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard track team placed a disappointing sixth in a field of ten in Saturday's Heptagonal meet. Penn won the event as Harvard's Geoff Stiles won first in the pole vault and John Chaffee won the 800 meters race...
...medals won by American track and field athletes in the Montreal Olympic Games, 24 were garnered by black athletes. Blacks won all the U.S. gold medals in boxing...
...down the street. When they turn loose African athletes who have been chasing, say, cheetahs, they will rewrite the record books. It's not because they're black but what they've been doing." Other athletes see explanations in the simple force of social pressure. In track, says Paul Warfield, the Cleveland Browns wide receiver, "I found just as many talented white performers with great speed or jumping ability as I did blacks. Yet in professional football, there seems to be an imbalance. For the white athlete, the alternatives have obviously been greater. He doesn...
Jumbo jets screamed down through hairy April clouds, and Aqueduct looked gray and barren. The place is functional, not aesthetic, and now that off-track betting presides in New York City, crowds that once pressed to see horseflesh and jockeys' silks have shriveled. Half deserted in a spattering rain. Aqueduct was no classic backdrop for young triumph...
...richness and flexibility he can achieve. A tinny xylophone riff wraps around the lead guitar in beautiful counterpoint, and the use of electronic media is sensitive and restrained. Carefully punctuated, many-layered, "China Girl" unfolds to a solo guitar fadeout which mimics the beginning theme, in the most cohesive track on the album. As the China Girl soothes him at the end of the song, I began to wonder if she had the secret that Iggy, in the dum dum daze of the Stooges, was looking for all along...