Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two-thirds of the three-mile I.R.A. regatta, Cornell's varsity crew had a hard time getting any real run on its boat. Then Stroke Phil Gravink pushed the beat to 32 and the Big Red shell began to skip across wind-chopped Lake Onondaga. Cornell crossed the finish line 12 lengths ahead of Penn. pulling away so fast that its third successive I.R.A. triumph looked deceptively easy...
...spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX (liquid oxygen) obscured the Atlas as technicians completed fueling. But by 2:35 p.m. "T-time" (firing time) was close at hand...
...through, and in 1903 he was ready to make the hard trip to Constantinople and the three-year course at the academy. In a mule-team caravan with 72 other boys bound for the academy, he traveled 27 days across bandit-infested desert to Alexandretta and caught the boat for Constantinople. In all it was a 40-day trip that Nuri now makes in less than four hours by Iraqi-piloted Viscount...
...usual manner, coach Harvey Love has shaken hs lineup quite a bit in attempting to find a winning combination to cope with a Yale boat which boasts five members of last years Olympic champion squad. Yale will be seeking its fourth straight win over the Crimson...
Nick Tilney will take over the bow position for this race, and veteran bow John Lapsley will move to the number seven oar. Bob McLaughlin will occupy the important cox position, and Fred Schwartz will be stroke. The rest of the boat will be Art Hodges, two; Jim McClennon, three; Jim Leonard, four; Peter Tulloch, five; and Charlie Faulkner...