Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
Canada's Nancy Greene, 23, weighs only 125 Ibs., and she can do 40 deep knee bends with a 170-lb. barbell across her shoulders. That ought to be enough to make her an intercollegiate weight-lifting champ. But Nancy uses her muscles on skis, and she does it better than any other woman in the world, as the French discovered to their distress last week...
...Crimson weightmen swept the shot put and the 35 pound weight for a quick 18 points. Sophomore Dick Benka threw 53' 3/4" for first place in the shot, while Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal placed second and third, both with throws of 52' 1 1/2". In the 35 pound weight, Ron Wilson hurled to the 56' 1/2" mark with Charlie Ajootian finishing second and Gene Mazel third...
...Peking and other large cities where the Red Guards have given the Maoists control by sheer weight of obstreperous numbers, such roundups would be fairly easy. Not so in the provinces, where conservatism is strong and resistance to the revolution is greatest. Because so much of the People's Liberation Army has its roots in the provinces, there is no assurance that it would necessarily take orders from Lin Piao in a showdown. Bloody clashes between army units and Red Guards were reported last fall in a few places, and since then Lin Piao has pointedly not used...
With Crimson sophomore Bob Panoff scheduled to face Cornell's co-captain Dick Moore in the final heavy-weight match, a final 17-17 tie or a 19-17 loss were possible...