Word: boatfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Storer, Worth, Reeve, and Jeff Padnos sailed in the event for Harvard as varsity crews. Denny Anderson and Steve Glovinsky handled the junior varsity boat, and Henry Meilman and Alfred Poor were the freshmen who competed for the Crimson...
Competition was divided into two divisions with three races in each division. Representing Radcliffe in the A division competition were captain Sandy Storer '70, the skipper of the boat, and crew Barbara Grant '73, Lisa Fulweiler '71 skippered Radcliffe's B division boat while Julia Reid '73 crewed...
...report provides a unique global view of a depressing, but neglected and far-reaching subject. We are all in the same boat, it says in effect, and the boat is foundering. It also stitches together various urban experiments from nations of differing political persuasions to form a patchwork solution. Most important, U Thant's report offers, along with extremely pessimistic statistics about the present, an infectious optimism about the future-if nations can learn to cooperate...
...mouthed old sea captain proposed to Durrell's mother. One learns of "Gerry's" visit to Corfu's countess, a dotty and rotund old party who forced him to share a six-course lunch climaxed by a whole wild boar. There are inevitable references to the boat-scuttling yachtsmanship of Eldest Brother Larry (now better known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet...
Semisynthesis. In the boat from which they worked, Dr. John Webb put the specimens into jars filled with alcohol. Ashore, within a few hours, some were quick-frozen, others were dried, and all were flown to Lederle's labs at Pearl River, N.Y. There the tedious and time-consuming process of searching for medicinally useful compounds began with the preparation of crude extracts. It will continue through a variety of screening tests that will determine whether the extract is active against such familiar microbes as the staphylococcus and other causes of human disease...