Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate athletic groups have recently petitioned the H.A.A. to be elevated to a higher official status. The team members of the lightweight crew, which is currently classified as a minor sport, are requesting to be given major sport status, and a group of weight-lifters is seeking official recognition as a club...
BRITANNIA CRASH, which killed all 15 of test crew aboard prototype of medium-range model, darkens future of Britain's big commercial turboprop. Cause of disaster is still a mystery, and drawn-out investigation on top of previous production delays (TIME, Sept. 23) is bound to discourage buyers...
...area of 23.66 acres located on the Thames River near New London, Conn., where the varsity and freshman crew squads live while training for the Harvard-Yale regatta in the spring. Six buildings are located on the property, including a varsity quarters, a dining hall, boat house, and coaches' residence...
...Body, One Ax. Last March, a peripatetic U.S. virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...
Whipple, moreover, was in Washington for an IGY conference when the Russian satellite was launched. Hynek was at home when he first heard a news report of the event, but he quickly assembled a skeleton crew of Smithsonian staff-members and began to alert the hundred or more Moonwatch stations from the Garden St. office...