Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applying space-age principles to the ancient art of boat building. It is no accident that his chief engineer, Eric Hall, used to work for Grumman Corp., the people who built the Apollo lunar module. Experimenting with tensile strengths and thermal coefficients. Chance refitted the old Intrepid with exotic lightweight metals -beryllium on the top of the mast, magnesium for the winches, boron graphite for the boom-to cut the weight of these vital fittings...
...traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless. By classic standards, Scheel would certainly seem too imprecise and incautious to negotiate treaties on which depend the fate of nations. The London Financial Times summarily dismissed him last fall as "an attractive and amusing man who cannot help looking lightweight...
More importantly' the I.R.A. is hardly a national championship event, regardless of what the N.C.A.A. feels. It only allows member colleges to enter, and restricts entrance to heavyweight eights. Thus, the Harvard varsity lightweight boat which roared through its season unbeaten, won the Sprint title by more than two lengths, and voted to apply to the varsity race at the I.R.A. was turned down, since by the I.R.A. standards, it was not the top-ranking shell at its college...
...M.I.T., Yale and Princeton, the lightweight boats are all measurably better than their heavyweight counterparts, and in each case except Yale, of course, it is the heavyweight boats that are going to Syracuse...
...quite clear what the I.R.A. committee is trying to do," says one lightweight oarsmen. "They want to force the heavies to give up the Yale race and come to Syracuse to decide that national title. If Harvard doesn't, they'll crown Penn champion and publicize the fact. They're trying to get at Harvard's pride...