Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third aspect of the captain's job is to manage the team, which includes recruiting, organizing transportation every weekend, and a good deal of coaching. "The organization is a big job, especially in the fall," said women's alpine captain Vera Fajtova. "The point of the program is to have as many people as possible participate, so we call up a lot of people in the freshman class every year...
Based on the strength of Harvard's freshman swimmers and the psychological edge gained from the outcome of the mid-season clash, the Crimson have got to be the favorites this weekend. The incentive to be gained from the fact that this would be Harvard's first ever Eastern Seaboard crown, and the friendly confines of Blodgett Pool are both definite advantages on the Harvard side...
...team to beat has been further eroded by two recent events. First was the decision two weeks ago of freshman distance-man Phil Atkinson to take a semester leave of absence. Conservatively, he could have been counted on to score at least 15 to 20 points this weekend...
...Strangelove. Perhaps a timely warning in view of China's recent misbehavior, Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy about dropping the A-bomb, returns this weekend. Kubrick creates an absurd and violent society (some say something like our own), peopled by the likes of General Jack D. Ripper, who gives the bombs-away order and then seals himself off, refusing to release the recall code. Meanwhile, the Russians have cooked up a Doomsday Machine to destroy the world in case someone drops an atomic bomb in their territory. It was going to be announced later that week...
Racing down a powdered slope may be thrilling, but when those fast-waxed bottoms leave the ground you enter another world. Last weekend in Vermont New England's top collegiate jumpers demonstrated their graceful aerobatics at Middlebury College's 55 meter hill. DAVE RAND [top left and top right], Harvard's Nordic ski captain, flew to one of his best performances of the year. CHRIS AXELSON of Middlebury breaks out of the gate [left] and rushes towards ground zero [above]. A pensive face [right] precedes the jump, but once you've started, there's no turning back...