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Even though they got lost at the two-mile marker, Jim Schlaeppi and Dick Benjamin led all the way over the losers' two and three-quarter mile course. Their times were 14:51 and 14:53 respectively. Andover's Pete Hiller stayed just behind them to finish third...
Campbell strapped on his light-blue life jacket and wedged himself into the Bluebird's cockpit. The 4,000-h.p. turbojet whined into life. Once he was lined up on his marker buoy. Campbell widened out on his foot throttle. Spray arched from her stern as the Bluebird rose on her floats and shot toward the end of the lake five miles away. Her jet roar thundered through the nearby hills. Seconds later, Campbell was ready to refuel for the run back...
...breeze, and beyond Execution Rocks the boat passed no buoys where Skipper Du Mont could check for the telltale ripples that would help him estimate the tide. Still, he had a feeling he was moving too fast; he reduced engine speed as he pulled up to the first marker. Then the breeze freshened...
...beat the Big Red to the gun. For a mile and a half, the Washington and Penn crews pulled their hearts out to hold the pace. Then, stroking along at a steady 30 beats a minute, Cornell began to get way on its boat. Just before the two-mile marker, the Big Red caught up with its plan: it was a boat deck in front...
...play was also a mile marker on the long road from such bedlams as it depicted to new cures for mental illness and others still only hoped...