Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightweight coach Joe Brown's JV's are so erratic that it is very difficult to predict where they will finish. If they are "right," they could achieve the best time of any lightweight boat on the river; if they are off, they could finish almost anywhere...
...heavyweight sprints will be run off by a series of four three-boat semifinals, the winners of which will meet in the finals. The Crimson crews fared reasonably well in the drawing last Tuesday as the varsity will face Navy and M.I.T., while the JV's are scheduled to meet Syracuse and Dartmouth in the opening rounds...
There is no apparent reason why the varsity should lose to the Middies, but if it allows itself to slip, the first boat will not even gets its chance for fame and fortune in the finals. The JV's have already been beaten by Syracuse but both Love and the seeding board rank them as favorites in this race...
Watching the Force. The new congressional attitude was more than a fiscal rebellion. It represented a subtle shift in sentiment since the 1956 election-from action to inaction, from do something to don't rock the boat. Even the Democratic National Committee, meeting in Washington, caught the fever. Receiving a plea from Americans for Democratic Action for adequate civil rights legislation, the committee quickly decided the message fell under the heading of "information," required no action. Instead, committeemen enthusiastically applauded the idea of making a big issue out of tax cuts...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...