Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Changing Room, will feel immediately at home with Fellow Briton Trevor Griffiths' characters. Six Man chester men with paltry jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod - final warmup, audition, postmortem...
Meanwhile, sandwiched between a field hockey warmup on one side, and a cheering mob of freshman football spectators on the other, the Quincy House squad ground out an easy victory against Yale's Saybrook-Trumbull...
...last week was just a warmup, the real show should be quite something...
...renounce their citizenship; years of training had availed them little more than an unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday afternoon, a group of New Zealanders, clad in their black-blazered parade uniforms, stood with their arms around several disconsolate Kenyans, still wearing the red warmup suits they had on when they learned of their government's "withdraw immediately" decision that morning. By week's end 25 countries represented by 697 athletes were out of the Games. Gone with them were such potential gold-medal winners as Track Stars Mike Boit of Kenya, Miruts...
...warmup session last week, the East Germans laughed, smiled and swam their laps to the sounds of pop music that their coaches had insisted be piped into the pool. They looked for all the world like candidates for a California swim club-but their training is a lot tougher. With typical Marxist determination, East Germany has established a policy of scientific selection for finding swimmers; it is based partly on early assessment of a child's cardiovascular capacity and body type. Great emphasis is put on weight lifting to build strength. The average East German woman swimmer...