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...banks of the Charles pose similar dangers. Carbon monoxide sampling that I did during the week of April 1 through April 9 showed CO levels of 25 ppm not uncommon during rush hour. For the one hour jogger, carbon monoxide levels found on the circuit exceed those of heavy cigarette smokers in some cases. For example, a person smoking three cigarettes in a row may produce carboxyhemoglobin levels of 7 per cent, corresponding to an altitude of 7000 feet above sea level. The physiological consequences are the same as those for the hockey player...
This was supposed to be the year that Harvard would be beaten. While Harvard mourned the graduation of six of its 1975 national championship eight, other crews boasted uncommon strength...
Susann split with Geis after a dispute over money. She and her husband Irving Mansfield then went on to demonstrate that they understood the new hustle better than anyone. As old show-business hands, they appreciated the value of contacts and details. It was not uncommon to find Susann at a distributor's warehouse greeting the truck drivers who would deliver her books to the store. In fact, the Mansfields practically wrote the book on modern literary promotion. The color of a Susann dust jacket was carefully chosen for television appeal. Once on, Jackie, who died in 1974, quickly...
According to Wallace P. Wormley, North House fellowships adviser, recommendations from judges are "not uncommon...
...leadership to the Manhattan-headquartered First National City Bank. By embarking upon one daring innovation after another, Citibank has indisputably established itself as the premier pacesetter of U.S. banking. The man who charts Citibank's bold course is a tall, sinewy iconoclast named Walter Bigelow Wriston. An uncommon blend of hard-driving executive and reflective, sometimes cynical intellectual, Chairman Wriston arguably exerts greater influence on American financial methods and mores than any other banker-and perhaps even more than all of them combined...