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...roster does seem a little top-heavy with Harvard men. No less than 12 of the selectees rowed for Parker at one time or another at Cambridge. Six of them--Paul Hoffman, Cleve and Mike Livingston, Bill and Fritz Hobbs and Monk Terry--rowed at Mexico in one shell or another. Five more men--Dave Weinberg, Gene LaBarre, Dave Fellows, Dave Sawyier and Dave Mitchell--were members of this Spring's varsity eight. Tom Tiffany coxed the varsity in 1971, and two others, present lightweight varsity stroke Tony Brooks and Paul Wilson, also rowed out of Newell Boathouse...
...through the scrambled circuits of Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
...lull of ten days, Giap resumed the offensive. The new Communist thrust was pure Giap-methodically prepared, lavish with firepower, and at an unexpected point. The U.S. and South Vietnamese commands had been awaiting attacks on Kontum or Hué. Instead, Giap once more drove on An Loc, the shell-torn rubber town near the Cambodian border, 60 miles north of Saigon. As usual, Giap's troops fought an almost medieval war of siege and attrition. North Vietnamese artillerymen rained some 7,000 shells and rockets on the ruined city during a 15-hour barrage -a rate...
Radcliffe will be unable to compete in the Nationals because of a lack of money. "We don't get much funding from Radcliffe in general," Olmsted remarked. The team was forced to undertake a fund raising campaign to obtain a shell and travel money for this season...
Immediately after the main event. Kirkland "A" boat rowers retired to the house of Master Arthur Smithies to drink champagne out of the Aggasiz Cup, symbol of intramural rowing supremacy at Harvard, while Kirkland's "B" boat members, less joyful, rowed the shell back to Weld Boat House...