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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long jump probably will be one of the Crimson's most productive events this year, with seniors Skip Hare and Bob Galliers leading the way, Hare leaped 24 ft. 3 in, outdoors last spring, and surpassed the 24-foot barrier on two other occasions. Galliers also reached the 24-foot mark in the outdoor Heptagonal meet last spring...

Author: By Wilson Dubose, | Title: Runners Face Terriers In First Indoor Contest | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Gingerly I opened the door and stepped out; the place was deliberately kept as cold as possible because of the ice. Marty, who is extremely alluring and conscious of it, turned from the two blondes he was squeezing to direct me to a spot on the bleachers where I was to await the checker, who would sign me in for my day's work. While I had been effecting the unnoticed transformation, several hundred more people had arrived. I joined them on the bleachers to wait...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...committed for three days of misery. Those benches were hard, and it was much too cold to take off any of the clothes you were fortunate enough to have brought, which meant that shifting your ass involved a good deal of clumsy commotion and perhaps a spilled coffee or two. The work crew must have collected a fined assortment of fallen articles from under the benches each evening: a few copies of Valley of the Dolls or Myra Breckenridge, maybe a Nat Sci 5 notebook, a Radcliffe bag lunch, assorted widowed gloves...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...begun setting up the lights and we were herded into a coherent crowd to be background for some shots of a Harvard-Cornell game. The time spent on the actual filming was not much, but setting up shots and organizing extras and other such chores stretched one or two short hockey sequences into a three-day stint. The hero, Oliver, is a hockey player from Winthrop House, and Jenny (Ali McGraw) comes to see him play. As Ryan O'Neal, who plays Oliver, had never been on skates until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...skaters swept around the rink performing all sorts of fancy maneuvers again and again for the cameramen. It should come out looking fantastic. For a few sequences the director Arthur Miller (who just did Popi ) had the camera fastened between two hockey sticks with a skater moving it over the ice after the puck. The whole contraption looked like a large but frail vacuum-cleaner as it swooped in and out of the players trailing the puck...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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