Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles will become the rowing mecca of the world Sunday when more than 3200 oarsmen ply the river in the 15th Head of the Charles Regatta before an expected 60,000 spectators...
Last year Harvard snatched the team trophy, nipping Yale and the University of Pennsylvania despite a surprising seventh-place finish by th men's heavyweights in the concluding event of the regatta...
...trends in astronomy. And Sagan conscientiously avoids littering the narrative with autobiography--though that will doubtless come in a couple of years. Then there's his imagination: Broca's Brain reaches it greatest heights when he unleashes it fully, describing, for instance, the prospect of a solar sailing regatta...
...short run, this 15-man group of Harvard graduates and other serious rowers is training for the Head of the Charles Regatta. In the long run, they are eyeing a far more ambitious goal--the 1980 Olympics...
...Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage ships (minimum age: 25 years) sailing in the shadow of the Queen Mary during the Long Beach, Calif., Ancient Mariner's Regatta...