Word: northeasterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grounds. They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
Losing to Northeastern in track is fast becoming a Harvard tradition about as welcomed as taking finals after Christmas vacation...
From the start Northeastern dominated the meet by outscoring Harvard 35-17 in the field events--a traditional Crimson stronghold--and taking advantage of the absence of several Harvard middle-distance runners...
...pace of the meet was set when Northeastern's cross country All-American, Bruce Bickford, ran a 4:03.89 mile to nose out Harvard's John Murphy and confirm coach Bill McCurdy's lament that "the close ones weren't going our way." On the brighter side of the race, Murphy, just coming off a bout with tendonitis, notched a personal best at 4:04 flat...
...Northeastern proceeded to take the number one and two spots in the hurdles, and second and third in both...