Word: beach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday's First Annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest approaches, rivalry has blossomed. Yesterday challenger Richard J. Barton '72 Posted his war sonnet entitled "Beach Beware" on the steps to the House dining hall...
Bennett H. Beach '71, unofficial House champion with a reported 23 cakes, was unperturbed by Barton's threat. He dismissed Barton and four other challengers as merely "a little competition...
...spite of Beach's confidence, the contest between Quincy's griddlecake gulpers will be close. "He's got the guts for this sport," trainer Andrew N. Meltzoff '72 said of Barton, his entry. "Rich wants to win this contest so bad he can taste...
...prize money, much of it put up by Havasu's developer, Oilman Robert McCulloch. Between them, Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer Mercury had no fewer than 40 boats in the field. By the end of the race, most of the craft were fit only for beach-party kindling. Within the first two hours, gusty 20-m.p.h. winds caused at least a dozen boats to flip into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly into the treacherous shoals bordering the course. Bill Petty of Wapakoneta, Ohio, driving a deep-vee hull powered by triple Mercury engines, jumped into the lead, held...
...battle has been executed on the spot, though this practice is nowhere authorized in the military code. A prominent U.S. general often recalls that as a platoon leader during the Normandy landing he shot to death a G.I. who had broken from the unit and run down the beach. Says he: "You can't have your men running under fire...