Word: coxswain
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...winning boat was--Bow, Peter Nitze; 2, Ken Huggins; 3, Bob Dole; 4, Charlie Cunningham; 5, Sam Walcott; 6, Toby Baker; 7, Mike Metcalf; stroke, Platt; coxswain, Mac McLaughlin...
...quiet spin in his motor launch. As he churned along the rowing course at Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They are incredible-efficiency in the extreme." The Russian oarsmen are not only efficient, they are good. Included in the first Russian squad, Czarist...
...eight regular oarsmen--plus coxswain, two spares, and a coach, who made the 1,200-mile trip by air--will be rowing west of the Atlantic for the fifth time in modern Harvard crew history and for the first time against Wisconsin on its home water...
After the race, jubilant Old" Dark Blues pounded winning Oxonian shoulders until they ached. The Cambridge coxswain, soberly directing his crew as they shouldered their shell into the boathouse, had the last word: "Come back next year...
...Princeton, N.J., Navy's Olympic crew, intact from 195:2 except for a new coxswain, stroked a mile and three quarters in a fast 8:45 to beat Princeton by four lengths for its 16th straight victory...