Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frail, carrot-topped youngster in Michigan, Vaughn took up boxing in self-defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged...
Chris Wickens added three more points to Harvard's snowballing score with a 5-3 victory over Dave Harrison of Princeton at 177. Crimson Captain Ben Brooks, wrestling at 191, clinched the meet by edging Reg Ungern 6-5. Harvard heavy-weight Tack Chace then disposed of Jan Twardowski 7-2 to complete the Tigers' undoing...
Likely winners for the Crimson are captain Art Croasdale in the weight throw, Walt Hewlett in the two-mile, and Chris Pardee in the high jump...
...will soon send Congress a bill to establish a "national wild-rivers system." The time has come, he said, "to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory." The President also put his weight behind efforts to clear Washington's own river, the Potomac, of unsightly debris-such as the rusty aquatic junkyard of gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached the point where effective authority is required...
...William T. Hughes, a Whittier, Calif., businessman, in cooperation with some of his local fellow Rotarians, the school has thus far organized three floating semesters, and is planning a fourth, beginning next October. Courses include the standard liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across the deck," says Roberta Mount...