Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coast Guard cutter stopped the 30-foot sailing boat about 1 1/2 miles off shore half an hour after its pacifist crew cast off despite a federal order forbidding it to leave...
NORTH FROM ROME, by Helen MacInnes (307 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is a sentimental travelogue spiced with a warning to all impulsive tourists: mind your own business. Horning in on a 3 a.m. kidnaping on the Via Veneto makes a lovelorn Harvardman miss the boat to New York, involves him with assorted dope peddlers, spies, a Sicilian triggerman turned legitimate, an Italian aristocrat turned Communist, and a dark-eyed golden-skinned Roman girl who did a turn at Radcliffe. It all leaves him too jumpy to enjoy the landscape between Rome and Perugia, or even the pleasures of an assignation...
...heavyweight varsity crew, rowing the last race of the day in order to take advantage of falling wind, finished a length and three-quarters in front of a hard-rowing Syracuse boat. Even further behind were M.I.T. and B.U., in that order...
Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab...
...races at Dartmouth, a Crimson combination third varsity and Freshman boat defeated the Green J.V.'s, while the third and fourth Freshman shells beat Dartmouth's Freshman squad