Word: crews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worsley had her problems in the cage against Kilik, but her 11 saves in the final period and 17 overall were quite remarkable, considering that the junior netminder has been rowing crew for the past two weeks and only practiced once with her former squad...
...uniform of the day," says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale...
...order of Hitchcock's North by Northwest, mystery-comedy with a high sheen. The nightmare began at once. Set builders hammered away 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often without finished designs to follow. Before the standing sets were finished, the cinematographer and most of his crew had quit, along with all the carpenters and many of the construction workers. The miniatures, used for exterior shots of a speeding train, were wrecked twice, once in a flood, once when an overpowered engine jumped the track. Script and casting problems were just as bad. One script ripped...
James E. DeFrantz, president of the Afro-American Society, said, "There was some feeling that one of the trustees had ordered the graveyard destroyed." He said that the society had requested a formal apology from the maintenance crew, but had not received...
Roos said that there was "no evidence of collusion" between trustees and the maintenance crew, adding that the faculty has "no knowledge that it was a political...