Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale's strategy, explained Hathaway, was to "stick with them in the first mile and pressure them afterward." Yale could have used more mucilage. At the end of a mile, the Bulldogs trailed by half a length; after two miles, Harvard's margin was up to three boat lengths. Rowing mostly at a steady 33 strokes per minute, the Crimson oarsmen swept to a six-length victory, clocked 19 min. 44 sec. upstream to break the 17-year-old Thames River record by a fantastic...
...Glass Bottom Boat uses space-age wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit...
...balance ups with downs, Doris plays mermaid for her salty dad, Arthur Godfrey, who makes his painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...
...says we're not as fast as we were a year ago." Crimson Coach Harry Parker said last night at Red Top. Conn., "but that shouldn't surprise anyone. In '65 we had an outstanding crew composed almost entirely of veterans. I don't really know how fast this boat is, but I think it's a good outfit...
...boat will be composed of the same oarsmen that won the Eastern Sprints Championship last month at Worcester. But Yale Coach Jim Ratschmidt has juggled his manpower considerably since arriving at Gales Ferry, Conn., in early June; three new men have been moved into his Varsity boat. The Elis placed third in the Eastern Sprints...