Word: 71st
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This afternoon Tom Nicosia, Harvard's 71st lacrosse captain, will lead the surging Crimson varsity against a muscle-bound Cornell team in a game that he thinks "will give us the needed impetus to propel the team to the Ivy title...
...Harvard fencers closed their sea-son with a last-place finish at the 71st annual Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships in Princeton's Dillon Gymnasium last weekend...
Dick Howe recovered from a cold night, sprinted out with the leaders, but fell back to 71st place. As with everyone but Baker. Howe's time was off his Hep's mark. Tim "Spider" McLoone dragged himself in 80th and Kentuckian John Heyburn crossed the line 107th, consigning Harvard to its lowly finish...
...were 288 jobs at the U.S. port facility named Newport, being built four miles up the Saigon River to handle military shipments and relieve the choking congestion of Saigon port proper. From the beginning, Newport was planned as a wholly U.S.-operated military port, with American soldiers of the 71st Transportation Battalion doing the stevedoring and all the other work. The idea was to minimize pilferage, the chances of sabotage, and the risk of U.S. military equipment's falling into enemy hands...
...some of Newport's facilities were ready for use last August before the 71st arrived in Viet Nam. So the Army asked six Vietnamese stevedore companies to run Newport on a temporary basis with Vietnamese stevedores. To provide for transportation and meal allowances, the stevedores were paid from 50% to 60% more than the going rate in Saigon. The union, which supplied the men for the jobs, found this so attractive that it rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport...