Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks as if the hearing Harvard is now involved in with a printers' union could be just a warmup exercise for a much more important hearing later in the month, when the University and the Medical Area group will hash out the representation issue...
Switzerland's Bernese Oberland was chock-a-block with celebrities last week. Among those on skiing holidays were the Ago Khan, Audrey Hepburn, Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson. On the slopes of Crans-Sur-Sierre, Jackie Onassis, in a snappy jacket and warmup pants, cut such a dashing figure that at one point she careered downhill and landed in a split. Son John, 14, was more conservative, preferring to give a Bronx cheer to a photographer. In Gstaad, Novice Nicholson was struggling with the subtleties of wedeling. "He loves zooming downhill," sighed Temporary Instructor Polanski. "His style is like...
After that it was all Crimson. In what Coach Pappy Hunt termed "a good warmup" for the Brown meet tomorrow, Harvard placed all eight of their runners in the top ten positions...
...rookie commander, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Gennady Sarafanov, 32, and his engineer sidekick, Colonel Lev Demin, 48, the first grandfather in space, simply were unable to hitch up with their target. Whatever the cause, the shortened flight was an embarrassment to the Russians, who had advertised it as another warmup for next year's Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. It was also a disappointment to American officials, who worry that Soviet space technology might not be up to the joint mission. Moreover, financially-strapped NASA now will find it more difficult to convince Congress that it needs more funds for space...
This was painfully evident when Harvard was pulverized in a pre-Henley warmup race at Nottingham by some English lightweight crews...