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...Harvard varsity lightweights won their Thames Challenge Cup heat today, whipping the Mortlake Anglian Boat Club by 3 1/2 lengths, with a 7:12 clocking for the mile, 550 yard event. The Crimson had the situation so well in hand that they eased up their stroke to 28 for the final quarter-mile of the contest. On Wednesday the crew scored an equally easy romp over the National Provincial Bank Crew of London...
...estimated 40,000 acres in Norfolk, Sussex and Essex counties, and is munching its way inexorably northward. Its appetite is inexhaustible, and by no means limited to farm crops: a Great Yarmouth farm wife recently complained that coypus were boldly gnawing her window frames, and in some East Anglian river towns, coypus have been known to free boats from their moorings by chewing through the lines. The National Farmers' Union sets England's coypu population at 250,000 to 1,000,000-an estimate necessarily vague, since coypus are active breeders (about three litters a year...
...coypu reached England in 1927 from Argentina, imported by several East Anglian farmers who wanted to cash in on the market for nutria coats. Then one stormy night ten years later, a strong wind blew down the pens on the nutria farm of P.E.T. Carill-Worsley in East Anglia, and some eight animals escaped. The wild coypus in England are descendants of those first escapees...
...people have turned from the Tories, but they have not yet turned to us," said Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell at the Labor Party conference last month. Last week the diagnosis was confirmed in a by-election in the ancient East Anglian market town of Ipswich, held to fill the parliamentary seat left vacant by the death of former Laborite Works Minister Richard Stokes...
Impossible Gesture. The Englishman most exhilarated was Harry L. Dowsett, chairman of an East Anglian shipbuilding firm, who has been canvassing Moscow for weeks. Dowsett called his $17 million contract (the only one signed and sealed) the "biggest single order for merchant shipping ever placed," but he carefully neglected to mention that it was a 30% smaller version of an order that has been gathering dust in the British Board of Trade (and in the Kremlin) since he first accepted it a year...