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With an estimated $60,000 available each year, Friends of Rowing can, for instance, purchase brand new shells for the teams. This year the alumni group spent $12,000 for a shell which will be dedicated to J. Paul Austin '37--and then contributed another $2000 for a pair of oars. In addition, they have sent crew teams overseas for competitions like the World Championships in Moscow in 1973. The friends also pay for the cost of meals--at $60 a head--over spring break when the crew teams stay in Cambridge for practices. As far as recruiting high school...
...good reason. In Washington last week some 300 diners had come not to honor but to baste him. America's favorite former anchorman had agreed to the $1,000-a-plate roast to raise funds for the newly created Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Trouble was that try as they might, such luminaries as Dick Cavett, CBS's Andy Rooney and Beverly Sills could barely generate enough heat to toast, much less broil, kindly Uncle Walter. Then came Cronkite's turn, and he gave better than he got. On Rooney...
...Best of the East next swings racquets with the Best of the West in the first round of the NCAA tournament to be held May 15 in Austin, Texas. Harvard, as the tournament's 16th seed, will take on number one Stanford...
Syracuse is coming off a stunning upset of Princeton last week. With two victories this week and a win over Princeton next Wednesday, the Crimson are almosat guaranteed the ticket to Austin, Tex. for the NCAA Championships...
Tensions died down by Saturday, when 2,500 union members and their supporters from around the nation joined the dwindling band of Austin strikers for a peaceful parade and rally in the small city (pop. 23,000). The police kept out of sight as both the march and a subsequent rally went off without a violent incident...