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...heavyweight race, Harvard took advantage of a stiff tall wind as only an expert crew can. Parker explained last night that under such conditions, choppy waters and the very speed of the boat make it essential that a crew be able to get its cars in and out of the water swiftly and smoothly. A crew that cannot loses its momentum. But the Harvard crew rowed with precision, and finished in an incredible 8:15. The old record of 8:35.8 had stood since...
...spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared him almost stiff. Said he: "Whenever that ground stuff came up at me, I was the most disjointed pilot in the world, trying to get away." But he went in lower, more often, and took more hits than any other U.S. pilot so far in the Viet...
Williams has complied a 3-1 record against stiff competition. In the first games of the season, they downed the University of Baltimore 15-9. Both teams lost to Rutgers-the Crimson 11-4, Williams...
Coach Harry Parker was surprised and obviously very pleased. "Our goal for this course was to get under 8:40 sometime during the season," he said afterwards. Conditions for the race were almost perfect, he said. A stiff breeze blow across the boats' port side, but Parker wasn't sure that it was astern enough to account for the fast time...
...even the cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...