Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orange-and-Blackmen are led by junior Alan Andreini, who will certainly give Hardin one of his toughest races of the year. Andreini has run a 25:59 at Van Cortlandt this year. Hardin's time was 25:53. Andreini, who won the mile in the Big Three track meet last season, whipped all the Harvard juniors two years ago when they were freshmen...
Team comparisons by time aren't overly meaningful. But it is frightening to see that Princeton times against Penn and Columbia at Van Cortlandt are on the average 30 seconds faster than Harvard times on the same course...
Based on John Van Druten's play, I Am A Camera (based in turn on a series of stories by Christopher Isherwood), Cabaret is set in the Berlin of 1930, where a naive young American novelist meets up and shacks up with a degenerate English cabaret girl. Then their landlady gets engaged to a Jewish widower living in another apartment in the same building...
...instant success: contests. More combat than competition, music tournaments have grown in size and importance to the point where there is a contest among contests, each one claiming to be more prestigious than the next. But when it comes to money, none can match Fort Worth's Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Piano Competition, which offers a top prize of $10,000 and a bundle of fringe benefits that includes everything but an oil well...
...platform to match her talents. "As the only woman here," she says, "I must accept the responsibilities that should have been distributed more evenly among the millions of us in Viet Nam. Everyone so far has been quite courteous about that." And why not? As Saigon Deputy Dang Van Sung admits: "Who dares attack her? You have to be as careful as you would holding a fresh egg in your hand." A mischievous gleam in her eyes, Mme. Xa concurs: "After all, I also represent the Deputies' wives...