Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a note which would have been dropped in the University suggestion box if I could have found it. Building and Grounds spends nine months each year running around the Yard chasing after plush, green, turf-y windmills. Yet, there has yet to be a year in which thick piled grass graced Harvard Yard. Solution? Astro Turf! Not only does it require no maintenance but also it remains plus and green year round. Single dorm-crew vacuum cleaners would get rid of autumn leaves. That task now requires costly. whining behemoths. The investment, which could easily be managed with...
...former number of the CRIMSON, he comes from one of the oldest racing families in America- two of the eight Triple Crown winners- and most recently represented on the turf by Damasens, Horse of the Year in 1967, property of his grandmother, Edith Baneroft...
...horses come up from Florida. Suffolk Downs will open on April 4 this year. A few subway stops on the MBTA beyond Airport, the Downs offers the best in New England racing. Last year Bill Veeck of St. Louis Browns fame staged the longest and biggest ($200,000 added) turf race in America, Veeck also gave away prizes to the fans- a steer, a horse, champagne, and free dinners at MacDonalds...
...battle followed. The Texas ground attack, which led the nation during the season with an average of 363 yds. per game, was pitted against the Irish front wall, which had allowed only 85.1 yds. per game. Behind Fullback Steve Worster, the Longhorns ground out two touchdowns on the glutinous turf to take a fourth-quarter lead. Then Theismann shot a 24-yd. touchdown pass to Halfback Jim Yoder to put the Irish back in front...
...Young Americans for Freedom) and H-R YPSI. (Young People's Socialist League) each muster their entire numbers on the turf over the Mem Hall underpass at dawn for a duel to settle their differences. Laszlo Pasztor, the Hungarian refugee who founded YAF, and Steven Kelman, the middle class Jew who created YPSL, fire simultaneously and kill each other. Their memberships cut in half, both organizations dissolve...