Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Rugby Club downed Harvard on Saturday, 11-6, in a contest influenced by a strong wind...
There were some nice touches. Once, the two men in the audience get so excited that they jump up and begin cheering with the actors on stage; another time a wind machine and dimmed lights make the actors forget that they are only pretending, and they act as though they were in the middle of a real storm...
...fact, the Crimson will be well represented in every running event. Wayne Anderson had a tough early season indoors, but came on to win his second straight Heps dash championship. He has run the 100-yard dash in 9.7 and has turned in a 9.6 with a tall wind...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: CHRONOCHROMIE FOR ORCHESTRA (Angel). One of France's leading composers, declaring that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played...
...space-related scientific research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...