Word: crews
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...first time in the long and glorious history of Radcliffe crew, a woman will be coaching at Weld Boathouse. As the 1977-78 campaign begins to unfold, Carrie Graves is the newest face along the Charles, and she faces a big test as the rookie coach of the Radcliffe heavies. But Graves's background in rowing gives her a stable foundation from which to work. She spent three years at the University of Wisconsin as the stroke and captain of the women's team, a team that has kept Radcliffe company in the national top five rankings for the past...
...Graves is confident that she has the knowledge and reputation to earn the respect of her athletes; her major concern is continuing the successful tradition of Radcliffe crew...
Every fall on the third Sunday in October, they flock to Cambridge, oar in hand, awaiting their turn upon the Charles. Then early on that Sunday morning thousands will line the river banks to watch crew's most majestic autumn Regatta...
...most Japanese, the yakuza are as instantly recognizable as soldiers in an enemy army. They wear their hair in crew cuts, parade about in flashy double-breasted suits, and affect the swaggering gait and tough-guy scowl of characters out of Guys and Dolls. They are the gangster minority in a society that enjoys the lowest crime rate of any industrialized nation in the world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates...
...WETA production crew is now deep into planning a second Music series -"the Son of Music," quips Sidlin. Their efforts could not have enjoyed better timing. Last week President Carter introduced into Congress a bill that would authorize more than $1 billion for such public television programming over the next five years...