Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's program of 18 events includes two new races, a mixed eight (four men, four women and cox), and the men's midweight single for scullers up to 170 lbs. Entries in most events have reached the limit...
...result of the staggered start is something on the order of a demolition derby, especially in the novice and youth events, where coxswains are less experienced. As the shells jockey for position on the turns, near collisions are the rule--rarely is a cox willing to cede the right-of-way if he thinks he can keep his place...
...Veterans Singles (time handicapped)10:00 2. Women's fours with cox 10:25 3. Championship double sculls 10:50 4. Lightweight eights 11:10 5. Championship fours with cox 11:30 6. Novice singles 11:45 7. Mixed eights 12:10 8. Women's singles 12:25 9. Youth eights 12:55 10. Midweight singles 1:10 11. Championship pairs without cox 1:35 12. Lightweight singles 1:55 13. Club eights 2:20 14. Master singles 2:35 15. Lightweight fours with cox 3:00 16. Women's eights 3:20 17. Championship singles 3:35 18. Championship...
...miles gone and you're heading into that Eliot turn. Remember the heart attacks you had as a freshman cox, how you hated practice upstream because you couldn't make that turn going downstream, how the coach yelled as you drifted into the center of the river? Well, now imagine all those coxswains who didn't grow up on the Charles, and they're seeing that turn for the first time. And freaking. And spilling over the buoys into your course. Hold your water, yell at them, and put your port oars over the buoys. Don't miss...
...campaign spending reports filed late last month, Florida news organizations have paid or pledged some $175,000 to No Casinos Inc., the principal antigambling lobby. Big spenders included the St. Petersburg Times, Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union, the Chicago Tribune Co. (Orlando Sentinel Star, Fort Lauderdale News), the Cox Newspapers (Miami News, Palm Beach Post and Times), the Tampa Tribune and Wometco Enterprises (Miami's WTVJ-TV-each of which gave $25,000. The Knight-Ridder chain's Miami Herald, largest paper in the state, gave...