Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday night, sophomore Pete Adams smashed the Harvard mark in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing third, and outstroking from the start Yale's Rick Schneider, who had beaten him last Saturday in New Haven...
Adams also swam the third leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay. Harvard qualified for the finals yesterday afternoon, breaking another record with a 3:15.7 performance. Adams hung up his fastest 100-yard split, 48.5 seconds. Jim Seubold led off in 50.4 seconds, a time he should lower in the finals against Yale and Navy. Phil Chase followed in 48.4 seconds, finally reaching the stardom long predicted for him Bill Shrout anchored the quarter--which avenged losses to Army and Princeton--in 48.4 seconds...
...shipyard that endeared Brooklyn to the U.S. Navy for 160 years is being closed. Already gone is the yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...
Sulzberger is one columnist who is not badgering the President to make all his war aims crystal-clear. "A yard of adhesive tape stretched over the mouths of a dozen Administration leaders might prove an effective secret weapon," he has written. But while he believes that recent U.S. foreign policy has been based on "reasonable logic," he also feels that it has often been clumsily executed. "The content of great power policy must sometimes be blunt," he says. "Its style should always be burnished...
...major complaint of faculty members at the five Florida campuses was that they could not cram their previous 16-week semester courses into the 14-week trimesters without shortchanging students. "Education is not a 60-yard dash-it should be approached and savored," said one Florida State professor, who contended that under the trimester his students were "confused and stunned by the lightning speed of things." Some students agreed. "It's like trying to drink water from a high-pressure fire hose," said...