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...they came through the Western Avenue Bridge, 30 strokes from the finish line, Yale was up by a seat. 'Cliffe coxswain Nancy Hadley called for a sprint, and her crew responded with a magnificent surge of power. Moving on Yale with every stroke, Radcliffe pulled ahead by half a length by the end of the race...
Totally frustrated, Whitlam tried to upset the balance in the Senate by persuading a longtime foe, Senator Vincent Gair, to accept the ambassadorship to Ireland. What Whitlam saw as a masterly stroke, his opponents, together with most of the Australian press, viewed as a cynical ploy. Whatever it was, the plan backfired. Instead of Gair's seat going to a Whitlam supporter as the Prime Minister expected, the premier of Queensland State used a loophole in the law to put in another conservative. Finally, when the opposition in the Senate, spoiling for a fight, began to carry...
Died. William Maurice Ewing, 67, U.S. geophysicist, oceanographer and first winner of the Vetlesen Prize, top award in the earth sciences; of a stroke; in Galveston, Texas. For four decades Ewing was a passionate, omnivorous student of the earth's structure. He pioneered the use of shock waves to explore the ocean floor and during World War II devised a system of naval communication based on the long-range transmission of explosion waves under water. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty) from 1949 to 1972, he logged thousands of miles aboard its research...
...really wanted that record" said stroke Clint Rubin, "but we'll take...
...last 500 meters the race belonged to the Crimson. They pulled up on Cornell steadily, picking up what looked like one-half a seat at a stroke in the last 100 meters, threatening to take it from the Big Red at the last moment...