Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last July, another unbeaten Crimson eight sought the same goal, with results the present crew will try to avenge. With the cream of the world's crews shooting for Olympic berths last summer, Harvard's lights had figured to dominate Henley. They didn't. A Cornell boat that the Crimson had ripped at the Eastern Sprints dumped them at the American Henley in a warm-up race, then slaughtered them in England a week later...
...Virtually nothing is going into the savings account," says Wayne Costley. "I'm still in my 30s, but I don't have the freedom to enjoy these years. There's no boat, there are no trips. I work hard, but it amounts to Nancy's going on vacation with the kids once in four years...
October 12: Harvard's football teak did well, beating Columbia 24-14 in the Ivy League opener, but the varsity crew boat came in fifth in a preliminary heat at the Olympics. New Zealand and Russia finished first and second in the heat and qualified for the finals...
...voyage had begun. A tug towed the 12-ton papyrus craft out of the harbor at Safi, Morocco, and then cast off, leaving Thor Heyerdahl and his crew to sail their weird wicker boat 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to Central America. The Norwegian adventurer, who proved with Kon-Tiki that man could navigate a raft across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, hopes to show that ancient Egyptians discovered the New World long before Columbus. After four days, Heyerdahl radioed that Ra was 133 miles along the predicted track, riding a strong current and floating well-quieting...
This will be the third time in four years that the lights have made the trip to Henley. In 1966, they won the Thames Cup, but last year the Crimson was eliminated in the first race of the five-day regatta by a good Cornell boat. Harvard was unfortunate enough to be in a lane where the current was not at all favorable, but Joe Bracewell, stroke of the Crimson boat said, "We might have lost anyway...