Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring was a little chilly this year for Harry Parker, coach of the Harvard varsity crew: with only two men back from last year's heavyweight eight that swept five straight college races, the Crimson's 106th rowing season figured to be, well, crimson. Imagine Parker's surprise when his young (five sophomores, two juniors) crew went through its first three races undefeated, then won the Eastern Sprint championships-defeating Archrival Yale twice, once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. Imagine Yale's surprise. "They really aren't that good," insisted Bulldog Oarsman...
...tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected, I don't know which one." Seconds later: "It's the left capsule...
Umbilical Dynamics. Plagued by abortive launchings, prevented from docking with the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) because its protective shroud had not shaken loose, the two astronauts were exhausted by three difficult but largely successful rendezvous attempts (TIME, June 10). Even so, the Gemini 9 crew hoped to salvage most of the mission by successfully completing their last and most dramatic assignment: Astronaut Cernan's scheduled 21-hour walk in space. "Hallelujah!" shouted Cernan as he opened his hatch and emerged into space on schedule...
...hand-held Hasselblad 70-mm. camera showed the rendezvous with the target satellite that Stafford had dubbed the "angry alligator." There was such clarity of detail that NASA experts used the pictures to confirm the reason why the ATDA had failed to shed its heat shroud. The ATDA ground crew had not connected four lanyards that would have assured proper jettisoning. Certain that the lanyards were merely leads for ground-test instruments, the crew had taped them uselessly to the side of the shroud...
...Crew escaped the usual doom for senior-laden spring teams last year by having oarsmen like Paul Gunderson and Geoff Picard take the whole semester off. This year's lacrosse team, with the most seniors in seven years, was less fortunate. It was unvictorious in Ivy competition...