Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Integration of the sexes at Harvard will move one step closer this afternoon when the Winthrop House crew comes to grips with eight oarswomen from Smith College at 2:30 p.m. on the Charles River...
Previously, the lightweight crew captured the five year old Biglin Bowl for the fourth straight year, as the varsity impressively trounced Dartmouth by almost two lengths. M.I.T. ended five-and-a-half-lentgths back...
...Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
...water. With a high proportion of respected experts aboard, submarine society quickly shakes down to "smalltown" clusters of six or eight men congealed around a leader. But these clusters do not freeze into antagonistic cliques, Captain Alvis reported, because endless recombinations occur in a modern sub's big crew of 80 or more men. "It takes quite a while for even a rather unpleasant person to inflict himself on everyone in the group." And a bad apple can always be set off on the next pier...
Behind the Northern Lights. When Van Allen made his first open report on Explorer IV, he had to avoid all mention of Argus because of military security. But he had plenty to tell about the natural radiation. He could say with assurance that a human satellite crew exposed to maximum Van Allen radiation for a few days would surely die. It looked as if the fierce particles, which slam close to the earth in the auroral regions, were the explanation of the ancient mystery of the northern lights...