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After watching their opponent's shell crash into a sailboat and send two sailors sprawling into the Charles, the Radcliffe lightweight crew survived a strong tailwind, sleet, an abbreviated course, a busted rigger and numbing cold only to lose narrowly to the UNH heavyweight varsity Saturday morning...
...race started ominously enough for the lights, as six-seat Kristen Laine caught a crab 100 meters into the course. Coach Peter Huntsman immediately called the race back to the start, but the damage had already been done, as Laine's rigger bent under the pressure...
...didn't realize my rigger was bent until after the race," Laine said yesterday. "My oar kept slicing into the water on the shaft, and I just thought I was having...
...making of the tower, an epitome of the constructive potential of labor, photographs itself." The Empire State is no longer the world's tallest building; much of its meaning has therefore been lost. But Hine's photos preserve that meaning, and every rigger perched on the dizzy I beams remains, in the black and white, a kind of all-American Prometheus...
Alerted to the possibility of sabotage, the Nazis place a Luftwaffe colonel (George C. Scott) aboard as a security man. Being a reasonably alert fellow, he cannot fail to observe that there is a feverish, guilty quality about a rigger named Boerth (William Atherton). The screenplay's attempts to generate a little mystery by introducing red herrings from the passenger manifest are laughable, since such worthies as Anne Bancroft, Gig Young and Burgess Meredith constitute nothing more than the customary ship of fools. It is hard to understand why Scott wastes time on them. As the only good...