Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warm weather does make us ease up a little, as we shift from a daily to a twice-weekly publication schedule for the vacation months. But because most of the regular staff clears out for home after examination period, the skeleton crew that stays behind has to work that much harder to keep the presses rolling...
...departure approaches, 33 crew members on deck and below are beginning their duties. The surprisingly clean engine room, below and aft, is bigger than the devil's furnace in a fevered imagination. Ship's engineers are checking giant boilers and huge cooling systems that support the 23,500-h.p. turning of a 64-ton propeller. In the galley, blonde, green-eyed Karen Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation...
...other benefits. The two-week paid vacation for Christmas is perhaps the greatest luxury. In the summer, the University offers many dining hall workers summer jobs in other departments. Usually, they work as custodians for the dormitories and Houses occupied by summer school students, since most of the dorm-crew students on financial aid aren't around. Those dining hall workers who don't get jobs receive unemployment insurance--a fact neither Thelma, Pat nor John likes to admit...
...football team lost quarterback Tim Davenport with a broken neck in the league opener, charged into the league lead by upsetting Dartmouth, ther fell back with a loss to a mediocre crew from Princeton. Then came the back-breaker with Harvard still clinging to its hopes of tying for the league title in the fourth quarter of The Game at New Haven, when Yale punter Mike Sullivan buried the ball in his gut on fourth-and-20 and sprinted 65 yards for a game-icing touchdown...
...among many others--the senior class committee finally settled on Rodney Dangerfield as this year's Class Day speaker. Dangerfield, known to millions for his heart-warming televised tributes to Miller Lite beer, apparently decided he could get more respect from the seniors and their parents than the usual crew of drunken nightclub patrons. Dangerfield has never attended a Harvard Commencement before...