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Looking to add an early-season warm-up to a schedule that in recent years has provided too few races before the all-important Eastern Sprints, the Harvard lightweight crew was a surprising victim of its own strategy Saturday...
Hoping to crack Princeton's stranglehold on lightweight rowing for the past three seasons, Harvard's narrow loss in the first race of the spring to the first race of the spring to the normally docile Quakers was disappointing for the Crimson oarsmen--not to mention surprising--but hardly a critical blow...
Although they were rowing on opposite coasts this past weekend, the Radcliffe varsity lightweight and heavyweight crew teams had equally easy times crushing their respective opponents...
...Although we did have a longstanding winning tradition to stand up to, we were psyched about winning," lightweight Captain Allison Pugh said. "We definitely saw a good portion of our competition out there--hopefully this was our toughest race...
...side is frequented mainly by surfers and dog walkers -- and now a prospector. Engineer John O'Grady, 71, believes this desolate spot may be one of the most valuable mineral sites on the West Coast. O'Grady thinks that the sand on Ocean Beach contains tons of titanium, a lightweight metal that the U.S. uses in plane fuselages and the Soviet Union has put into submarine hulls. Ocean Beach's titanium could help supply U.S. defense needs into the next century, says O'Grady -- and, at $40 or more a ton, could be a bonanza for his Torrance, Calif., mineral...