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Victory is his replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway, in which seven Japanese and U.S. ships went down. Through these pages, the reader feels the dizzy tilt of every sinking...
...victory over Vesper was anything but boring. It was anything but easy, too. Rowing at a beat of 50 strokes a minute, the lighter (by 7 Ibs. per man) Vesper crew sprinted into the lead at the start, stayed there until midway through the 2,000-meter race. Finally, Harvard's weight and strength began to tell. Stroking at a steady 36, the powerful Crimson boat edged alongside, fought off still another Vesper sprint, and drew out to win by 1 ½ lengths. And so back to the stadium they went, but this time they got a break-they...
...festival part was plenty festive. The throngs watched psychedelic movies, strolled through a mod midway of booths offering everything from underground buttons to paper dresses, dug the din of makeshift steel bands, and scattered over the grounds with guitars and blankets to strum, sing, socialize, or simply sleep. Onstage in the 7,000-seat arena, an English group called The Who set off smoke bombs, smashed a guitar and kicked over their drums. American Singer Jimi Hendrix topped that by plucking his guitar strings with his teeth, and for an encore set the entire instrument on fire...
...brown energy that he begins the day with assorted situps, nip-ups, bends, lifts, kicks, flutters, isometrics and 300 pushups. Neither these nor his labors in the Senate give him quite the exercise he craves. Last week a startled photographer caught the Senator in sweatshirt and tennis shorts midway through a brisk jog from home to work -a lung-flaying distance of 4.7 paved miles between Cleveland Park and Capitol Hill that Proxmire traces every morning, retraces every night. He covers the route in 35 minutes, beating the bus by 15 minutes, and estimates that he saves "about...
...ends the year midway through the term of its third chairman with a few irons in the fire and a long list of where to begin again in September. Its one unqualified success and one fiasco of near classic proportions say much about the committee...