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...unlikely, though, that it will ever be that way again. Too many crews, notably Northeastern, have had too much success with ergometers, foreign shells and German rigs to ignore any new developments in either rowing technique or equipment. After Pennsylvania's horrendous experiences with its new Pocock super-cedar shell this year, even the reliability of American equipment may become suspect. Unfortunately for American college coaches, and American college athletic budgets, it has frequently become a matter of innovate or be left three lengths behind...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Mexico Memories, Doubts About Munich | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia. Quaker coach Ted Nash maintains he has enough baling wire and chewing gum to hold together the dredged up remains of the Burk and plans to use this experimental red cedar shell Saturday...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Heavies Seek to Regain Eastern Supremacy | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

...correct; Muskie has simply succumbed to paronophilia-the inordinate love of puns. Twice in New Hampshire he has assured audiences that the state cannot be taken for granite, and at the state capital he announced to a stunned reporter: "We just Concord the statehouse." At defenseless Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he counted the house and cracked to his audience: "I can see that things are Coeequal here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Punning: The Candidate at Word and Ploy | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...water from freezing. The dining halls serve richly varied menus with items ranging from hamburgers and milkshakes to such local delicacies as hairy crab and fried squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from the new $119 million subway system that rolls on noiseless rubber tires to the crack team of abacus scorekeepers who back up the computers, was arranged with super-efficiency-sometimes to a fault. For the opening ceremonies, for example, officials have decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter Wonderland | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...Cedar Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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