Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, talking with government, industry and labor leaders. "Other nations," he reports, "may be plagued by jolting strikes and shutdowns, but in Scandinavia relations between workers and employers remain remarkably serene. This tranquility between such traditionally adversary forces seems at times as magical as a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It also happens to be the special glory of the Scandinavian economic system...
After a detailed mission briefing and a long preflight check, we finally took off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, leading a "cell" of three planes spaced two miles apart to avoid mid-air collisions. Three hours later, over the Philippines, the green-and-black camouflaged Stratoforts rendezvoused with three KC-135 jet tankers for a 40-minute ballet of mid-air refueling...
...Andersen said he began to realize his crew was extremely strong two weeks into the season, after it trounced M.I.T. by three lengths. M.I.T. had been thought to be one of the strongest lightweight crews...
...Amsterdam the Harvard lightweights will fly directly to England where they will prepare for the Henley trial heats, which take place July 10. On July 6 they will enter races at Reading, upstream from Henley. The Reading events are raced over a course of only about a mile and Andersen called it "a nice little tune-up regatta" in preparation for Henley...
...lights have exhibited an extraordinary ability to start fast, and to break (beat, to the laymen) the other shells immediately after the race begins. What concerns Andersen is their tendency to lose speed as the race wears on. Andersen has clocked his crew over each segment of a race, and the times increased. He calls this drop-off in speed "a bit excessive...