Word: auriol
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...pair lost in the first race to future-finalists P.M. Haining and N.J. Strange of the Auriol Kensington Rowing Club and Leander Club. Haining and Strange were defeated in the final by James Cracknell and Matthew Pinsent of the Leander Club. Cracknell and Pinsent both earned gold medals in the Sydney Olympics and are currently first in World Cup standings...
DIED. JACQUELINE AURIOL, 82, French aviator who was the second woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953; in Paris. The daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, Jacqueline traded parties at the palace for stunt-flying lessons in 1946. Two years after her face was crushed while she was a passenger in a 1949 plane crash, she volunteered to fly the Vampire jet fighter and set a world speed record for female aviators...