Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill Brooks expects six sophomores to be major factors in the team's success. Steve Krausse, a regular winner last year, will swim in the distance freestyle events, and Johnny Munk will perform as a butterfly man. Toby Gerhart and Dave Powlison are both solid freestylers, and Mike Cahalan in the sprints and Steve Baumgart in the breaststroke also show great promise...
...scene took place in Las Vegas' Circus Circus, a new $15 million casino that manages to be gaudy and raucous even by the extravagant standards of the Strip. Inside, aerialists, unicyclists, jugglers, trained dogs and 15 clowns perform their acts right in the gaming room. And if that isn't enough distraction, there is also a carnival-style sideshow with dart games, a coin toss and an electronic shooting gallery for the kiddies. For the grownups, the sideshows are spicier. In one, a nearly nude girl bounces out of a bed and dances a quick Watusi whenever somebody...
...retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...
Head Coach Bill McCurdy credited John Heyburn with running "a good, solid race," and expressed regret that he had not given the powerful junior a chance to perform in the Heptagonal or IC4A meets. Heyburn, the eighth man on a team limited to seven entries, got the nod yesterday when captain Doug Hardin and Royce Shaw were sidelined by injuries. He responded by finishing fourth man for Harvard, his highest of the season, and 128th overall...
...turn, would go a long way toward strengthening the position of the dollar abroad. Yet excessive zeal in combating inflation could throw the nation's economy into reverse. The new Administration, says Yale Economist Henry Wallich, a onetime economic adviser to President Eisenhower, will find that it must perform a delicate balancing act "between policies that would bring on a recession and ones that would continue inflation...