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...time Harvard untangled itself, only the humongous squad from Washington, which averages out at 6-ft. 5-in., 200 pounds, and the Eli were still battling for first. Washington surmounted the conditions--a 20-mile-per-hour tailwind causing whitecaps--to stroke to a record-setting time for the course...
...omnipresent Washington (3:20) on the 1000-meter course, which is 500 meters shorter than most Eastern courses. But coach Carrie Graves said she was pleased with the team's first outing and especially with the strong performance in the last 500 when they held a 36 stroke per minute tempo...
...oarswomen continued to increase their lead when MIT's bowman caught a crab and a quick reaction by freshman Sabatino put the eight in the middle of a power ten before MIT recovered. With 500 meters to go, there was open water, and with the opposition keeping a stodgy stroke rate of 29, there was no last-minute comeback...
...Weller falters, Danny Bowles will likely play center, although Nahigian prefers him starting in right. Bowles, a lefty swinger with a sweet stroke, is a fine hitter and a good fielder--his arm may be the best on the club. His only question-mark may be an ability to hit lefties, but only because he has not seen many. Bowles in right will be a Crimson strength...
...historian and leading authority on both Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx (although he espoused the political philosophy of Jefferson only), who painstakingly re-created the emotional and intellectual lives of his subjects in such books as A Jefferson Profile (1956) and Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography (1978); after a stroke; in New York City...