Word: crew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triple Mercury engines, jumped into the lead, held it for 1½ hours, then shrieked into a turn at 70 m.p.h., cut the corner too close and grazed the bottom. The mistake cost him two propellers and part of one engine. Incredibly, Mercury's six-man pit crew repaired the damage in barely 20 minutes. But by then it was too late. Outboard Marine's Cesare Scotti, a tough little Italian marina operator, had taken the lead...
Barring further injuries. Harvard's distance runners again should form one of the team's strongest links. The distance crew consists almost entirely of the runners who made up the Crimson's undefeated cross-country squad this fall...
...days of misery. Those benches were hard, and it was much too cold to take off any of the clothes you were fortunate enough to have brought, which meant that shifting your ass involved a good deal of clumsy commotion and perhaps a spilled coffee or two. The work crew must have collected a fined assortment of fallen articles from under the benches each evening: a few copies of Valley of the Dolls or Myra Breckenridge, maybe a Nat Sci 5 notebook, a Radcliffe bag lunch, assorted widowed gloves...
...really knew what was coming off except for the signer-in, who was establishing order person by person. Since each person wanted the whole business explained, it was nine-thirty before he got to my area. Meanwhile the working-class sector of the production crew had brought out four large coffee machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting...
...three days that I was there-and each one lasted longer as the crew tried to keep to its daily schedule-I felt cut off from the rest of the world. There was nothing to do expect read, talk to other people, or go to the bath-rooms to warm...