Word: crewed
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Spring officially begins today as Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew takes to the water in competition for the first time since the Olympic Games last October...
...crew which rows the 2000 muddy meters in Providence this morning is far different from the eight which represented the United States in the Olympics. There are five new faces in the boat...
Harvard plans no special strategy or experimentation for today's effort. Coach Harry Parker shifted his veterans around to new positions during pre-season practice to get the best possible combination with the talents of the new men, but the crew will start at its usual 40-plus strokes per minute and settle to a steady 36-37 for the race today...
Harvard hasn't lost to a college crew in its last 37 starts, and the Seekonk should yield up number 38 this morning...
...Tiki, a primitive raft made of balsa logs. Now Author-Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, 54, plans to navigate the Atlantic in a 45-ft. by 15-ft. craft made of papyrus, to prove his theory that people from ancient Mediterranean civilizations could have made the journey. Heyerdahl and a crew of six will shove off from Safi, Morocco, next month, charting a course through the Canary Islands to Central America, where traces of what seems to be primitive Old World cultures have been found. Until now Heyerdahl kept very quiet about it. "Otherwise," he says, "I would have drowned in letters...