Word: weight
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Fastov, who wrestles in the unlimited weight class, has improved strongly during the season, and should score several vital points for the Crimson. Syracuse's Jim Nance, however, is heavily favored in this weight class...
...pampas 160 miles west of Buenos Aires. "Couldn't they stay up longer if they had engines?'' They could indeed. But to the 63 competitors from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit, a buoyant wing, the song of the wind, and unending miles...
...fresh surprises, and sometimes it seems, with all its pillars and recesses and terraces, as intricate as the waterworks that young Le Corbusier used to work on when he was a watchmaker's apprentice back in Switzerland. It rests on pilotis that vary in size according to the weight they must bear. Each of the five floors seems different from the others, for the building is an enormously imaginative assortment of squares and rectangles broken by great sweeping curves. A ramp snakes up from Quincy Street through the third floor and spills out on to Prescott Street. Three floors...
What was supposed to be a close wrestling match in New Haven Saturday afternoon turned into a bad beating for the varsity when the inspired Bulldog grapplers took unexpected points in the middle weight classes. Bob Pickett's varsity won only two of nine matches in falling to the Elis 20-10. In spite of the loss, the Crimson finished the season with a 4-2 mark--good enough for second place in the Ivy League...
Veterans Fred Pereira and captain Bob Kolodney have provided experience and stability in the middle weight range, while Bob Fastov's rapid improvement in the unlimited class gives the Crimson a balanced line-up noticeably lacking in former years. Pickett admits his charges "have come across faster than anyone thought they could," but he faces real personnel problems against Yale in New Haven Saturday afternoon...