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...accurate description of Ivy League crew. But, where I learned to row, at the West Side Rowing Club, in Buffalo, N.Y., the aristocratic aura was conspicuously absent. The clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through...
...water was a greenish, oil-laden composition, often full of large black gobs, that would only come off the shells with gasoline. But it's hard to tell which was worse, the water or the people walking along side. A thin breakwall separated the canal from the river and Lake Erie, and oftentimes, fishermen would cast a line into the canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between...
...across the canal with our main forces lined up behind on the West Bank. Which is better, to be in close contact with the enemy or on the other side of a water barrier?" Warned Gamassy...
...Another war will be much more costly than the last one in all respects. For instance, we are rebuilding the cities in the Suez Canal Zone. If the Israelis bomb those cities, we will retaliate...
Help was quick in coming. The U.S. flew in four HU1 helicopters from the Panama Canal Zone, which surveyed the rubble, and airlifted to safety hundreds clustered on hill tops. In one rescue operation, 34 refugees desperately crowded aboard an HU1 that normally carries 15 people. In the Aguan valley, pilots reported that flood victims battled each other with machetes for food packages delivered in airdrops...