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Friday afternoon the Severn was calm in the rain for the Crimson's pre-race workout, but by Saturday morning a gale-like tailwind had kicked up the Severn's waters into a ferocious chop with whitecaps...
...Pura got cleanup hitter Herb Kummer to chop one back to the mound. He flipped to substitute catcher Kevin Carr, who stepped on home for one out and fired to first for the second. Dan Sundberg followed by grounding out to third baseman Fran Cronin, and MIT was once again frustrated...
...wake, the Glomar Explorer headed for the open sea on June 20, 1974, ready at last to attempt the culmination of Project Jennifer. By about mid-July the odd convoy reached the site of the sunken Soviet sub. The delicate salvage operation got under way. Despite the chop of waves and force of the current, it was necessary for the Glomar Explorer to maintain an almost impossible stationary position, straying no more than 50 ft. in any direction. To do that, the ship dropped a series of bottom-placed transducers, which detected the force and direction of the water...
...supporter and current political rival. Rep. Morris K. Udall, said in an interview. "I think the dirts tricks people in the Nixon campaign brought about the defeat of Ed Muskie. They feared Muskie. They knew he was the toughest candidate. They did everything they could to chop him up and cut him down. And I think given an ordinary situation, and absent the dirty tricks that were played. Muskie would have been the nominee...
Martin Peretz, munching a pork chop, takes up his new duties as special lecturer on Mormonism. "Gene says give the system one more chance," Peretz says. "Liberals like myself believe in religious pluralism." Rockefeller bombs Hanoi for Christmas...