Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finances, planning and operations, and served as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 1968-69. Champion came to Harvard as one of President Bok's new vice presidents, and began to enforce a policy under which each of the University's faculties was financially like a "tub on its own bottom;" they were all to balance their budgets and make themselves secure and independent...
...promoted the star of Midas' 30-model trailer, camper and motor-home lineup: the Midas mini-motor home, known as a Chopped Van. Midas buys the cab and chassis of a GM, Ford or Dodge van, then builds on an insulated aluminum and wood body complete with tub, shower, refrigerator, stove, beds and other amenities. Selling price: $12,000. Midas' sales of recreational vehicles jumped from $60 million in 1975 to $106 million in 1976. That is more than half the figure for the giant of the motor-home business, Winnebago Industries...
...wasn't the Snake River Canyon this time, but Daredevil Evel Knievel came a cropper anyway. CBS-TV had signed him up for a live 90-minute mini-Jaws show: he was to vault his Harley over a 64-ft.-wide tub full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting...
...going up to the Winter Carnival at Dartmouth this weekend, you can catch the Harvard swim team racing Cornell in the second-floor gilded bath tub of the IAB at 2 p.m. The Harvard fencers will also face Cornell at the same time on the third floor...
...however, a sequel to his soft-focus romance between a French racing driver and a young widow. This time the story takes place in the American West in the 1870s. A French immigrant wife (Genevieve Bujold) arrives by stagecoach in dusty Arizona. After cleaning up in a steaming pay tub (a cold bath costs 50 and a hot bath 100), she meets and becomes involved with a young veterinarian (James Caan). LeLouch says he nearly called it A Man, A Woman...