Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily camouflaged around the house. In public, the works could be concealed under a snood or scarf, even fitted accommodatingly under a bathing cap. Most important, the head that hit the pillow (encompassed though it was in scrap metal) never had to worry about going to sleep: the weight of a million bobby pins, in fact, often proved a sort of sedative...
Homicide is only one of Kirby's quirks. Upstairs he conducts choir practice for a collection of speak-your-weight machines, reasoning that machines that talk ought to be able to sing a cappella. He also dotes on Pavlovian dogs, and his reflexes are conditioned accordingly. "Now he has to have a little ping every time he sets down to a meal," his mother complains, pinging...
Harvard hasn't a prayer of finishing any better than respectably in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Tournament at Cornell today, but at least the Crimson has one wrestler who can be mentioned without embarrassment as a serious contender in his weight class...
Harvard's white hope in Ed Franquemont, the mild-appearing sophomore whose 8-1-1 record this season was the best on the squad. Franquefont is entered in the 147-pound class, ten pounds below the weight that he wrestled for most of the year. The favorite in the class should be Mark Scureman of Army, runnerup in last year's Easterns...
...stir. Captain Ben Brooks at 191 and Howie Durfee at 137 are good wrestlers for the Ivy League, but they have little chance to upset the machines from powers like Lehigh, Penn State, and Syracuse. Howie Henjyoji at 123, Tom Gilmore at 130, and Tack Chace at heavy-weight all have had disappointing seasons, despite glimmers of brilliance...