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...Haven tradition where both crews attempt to paint a certain rock at the starting line with their respective school colors, coaches Peter Huntsman and John Baker teamed up with coxswains Nancy Hadley and Amy Sacks to paint a large black square with a white Radcliffe "R" on the Eli dock, the official's boat, a starting-line rock, and a TV tower midway through the course. This occurred at midnight on Friday. The Bulldogs refused to be outdone, though, and repainted them all by noon Saturday...
Yale managed to put a "#2" after the "R" on the tower just prior to the race; when the Elis left the dock on their painting expedition, Huntsman slyly repainted the official's boat with a black "R", By racetime (8 p.m.), the rock and the boat were still black. Moreover, the Radcliffe colors still showed through the hastily-covered blue and white dock...
...want to consider them together; in this manner, Americans and Canadians could agree to let in more European industrial exports in exchange for greater freedom of access to the European market for farm goods. For precisely the same reason, Europeans are lobbying against such linked bargaining. Their argument: recent dock blockades, riots and demonstrations by European farmers are ominous signs of a potential social upheaval unless special measures are taken to protect Europe's ancient and comparatively backward agriculture...
...haggard face gave vivid evidence that he had been harshly treated. But even then, a shocked world could hardly imagine what had been done to make so proud and stubborn a man as József Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, stand in the dock and drone out a confession to patently false charges of treason and conspiracy. Only when he published his Memoirs late last year did he provide a full account of how Communist police had broken his spirit. For five weeks he was harangued, stripped naked, kept forcibly awake, drugged and thrashed endlessly with a rubber truncheon...
...heat-seeking missiles, and we were prepared to be shot out of the sky. As I turned around to see who was aboard, Buu Vien, the South Vietnamese Interior Minister, smiled and gave a thumbs-up signal. Forty minutes later we were aboard the U.S.S. Denver, a landing-platform dock, and safe...