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...handoff to Rogers 30 yards ahead of her closest competitor. Rogers widened the gap to 40 yards, handing the baton to Linsley with a 2:20.7 split. Linsley sped through her 800-meter leg in 2:19.0 to hand off to Beckford. The freshman star then ran the anchor leg in 2:09.1 to win the race in 9:04.4, more than ten seconds ahead...
Lowell House dominated the women's 200 meter medley relay, while Quincy House cruised to victory in the men's version. Quincy's anchor man Lance Miller awed the crowd by making up for his "open" lane turn with sheer power and speed in the straights. "We blew them out of the water!" said the jubilant Miller, who shaved his beard for the event...
...than 8,000 (now 1,400), visited by 3,000 ships a year. During the American Revolutionary War, vessels from Statia (pronounced Stay-shuh) shuttled arms and supplies to the rebellious colonies. On Nov. 16, 1776, the armed North American brigantine Andrew Doria, flying the Great Union flag, dropped anchor in the harbor and was accorded an eleven-gun salute by the Dutch governor. Thus, as noted on a plaque presented to the island by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "the sovereignty of the United States of America was first formally acknowledged" by a foreign power. In 1781 London dispatched Admiral...
...after 18 years as TV's avuncular anchor, Walter Cronkite was talking retirement-even though his current $600,000-a-year contract with CBS Evening News has another year to run and his commitment to the network as nonretirable talent is unchanged. Some telegossips said Walter wanted out; others suggested he was helping CBS retain Probable Successor Dan Rather, who was being heavily wooed by ABC. Either way Cronkite could certainly leave with honorable profit in other fields...
...foilsmen looked particularly weak with only freshman David Merner, who won two and lost one, fencing skillfully. Merner has looked progressively stronger in every meet for the Crimson, and the freshman swordsman will be a solid anchor for future Harvard teams...