Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrecked than Crashed. By all indications, there are only small numbers of people whose fear of flying is so phobic that they find it all but impossible to get into a plane. But they have little trouble recognizing one another, if only because they are all inveterate train and boat travelers. When Composer Andre Previn and his wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting...
...trying to "disrupt the team," and then planned to send coxswain Paul Hoffman home for alleged complicity in the Smith-Carlos black power protest the night before the final race. If Hoffman had been judged guilty of conspiring, it is probable that the U.S. would not have entered a boat in the finals since individuals on Harvard's crew were not willing to row without...
...controversy have any effect upon the boat's performance...
Harry Parker strongly denies that the boat suffered for it. "Mentally they were ready to race just as hard and just as fast as they had ever done. I don't think you have to explain being beaten by crews of that caliber...
Paul Wilson, a Harvard alumnus rowing for the Vesper Boat Club, was the only record-breaker as he lowered the Senior Single Sculls mark 24 seconds...