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...zoom up to 2,500 ft., loop backward into a dive at 400 m.p.h., then pull out when they get back to 100 ft. This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground and the other three, locked into their now fatal formation, followed within a tenth of a second. They exploded in a ball of flame that one witness likened to napalm explosions he had seen in Viet Nam. Dead were Major Norman L. Lowry III, 37, the Thunderbirds' leader, and Captains Willie Mays, 32, Mark E. Melancon, 31, and Joseph Peterson...
...tenth year at Harvard and his fifth as both men's and women's coach, Walker has guided what he describes as an "evolution" in Harvard diving. Nationally recognized, Walker has coached several U.S. international teams, and at the University of Minnesota he helped Craig Lincoln win a bronze medal in the 1972 Munich Games...
With five seconds on the clock, Crimson guard Jeff Sinek took a pass from teammate Tom Clarke, dribbled to the right side of the foul line and arched a graceful 15-ft. jump shot. The buzzer sounded, and...swish! Sinek had his ninth and tenth points of the season, and Harvard beat...
During the year, expenses incurred by the ten faculties grew by 14.2% to a level of $351.8 million. These departments account for approximately four-fifths of the University's activity. A further $30.1 million, or somewhat less than one-tenth of University activity, is incurred in the other academic departments, research institutes, museums, and similar organizations for which separate budgets are maintained. Expenses incurred within the service departments of the University, which bill the faculties, other academic departments, or individuals for their products and services, increased by 16.4%, primarily as a result of increased utility costs...
...require candidates to demonstrate knowledge The key itself of foreign languages and math as part of a strong liberal arts background. That has meant that Georgia Tech, because it mainly trains engineers, has never had a chapter. ΦBK guidelines also indicate that new members rank in the top tenth of their class, a standard that made Bryn Mawr refuse a chapter on grounds that all Bryn Mawr women are academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college chapters, including Harvard...