Word: crew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marietta is unusually strong for a midwestern crew, and Notre Dame and Purdue should provide the comic relief for spectators. The Fightin' Irish made it to the semi-finals of the Dad Vail Regatta last week, and have beaten such teams as Worcester Poly, Amherst, and Grand Valley State (Mich.). Wisconsin killed Purdue in an early race, mounting only a 28-strokes per minute closing sprint to finish off the Boilermakers...
...expect to win the meet because I've been taking good care of [field coach] Ed Stowell this week," he said. Stowell's field crew picked up 41 of the Crimson's 67 1/3 points in last week's Heptagonal victory...
Winthrop downed Eliot in softball to tie for that championship, but the Jumbos won the "A" crew. A Winthrop oarsman caught a crab and was thrown into the wet Charles River. Eliot took advantage of this misfortune and won the race to regain the Straus Trophy from Joe Mullin's boys. And whatever happened to Leverett...
...returning veterans walked into the training camp and claimed that their entire crew had traveled four hours to the end of the potholed road, where they expected a helicopter to ferry them to an interior fire. The helicopter removed from the fire the crew which they were to replace, they said, but when five o'clock rolled around, the pilot quit work for the day. The new crew of firefighters jammed into the nearest village tavern; everyone got drunk, and the government abandoned the uncontrolled fire...
...fires in Alaska, however, this 20,000-acre blaze proved to be unspectacular. It smoldered in the foot-deep carpet of moss above the permafrost, slowly charring the sparse timber as it advanced. To contain this fire, helicopters would ferry the men to points along the perimeter, where the crew would hack trenches out of the moss and fell the trees for 20 feet on either side to prevent burning limbs from dropping across the fire line...