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Crimson Coach Charlie Butt's eight crossed the finish line a disappointing third of three boats, and a distant six seconds behind the first-place Yale crew in Saturday's annual running of the H-Y-P lightweight showdown...
FLEETWOOD MAC: BEHIND THE MASK (Warner Bros.). Come with us now back to that distant time when dinosaurs roamed the earth and supergroups ruled the charts. Fleetwood Mac's first album in three years, and its first without Lindsey Buckingham, is an easy-to-take, if occasionally lumbering, excursion, with some sprightly love songs by mainstays Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks...
...radar operates by sending out radio beams and listening for echoes as the signals bounce back from distant objects. The range of conventional radar is limited by the earth's curvature, since the signal must follow a straight line. Standard ground-based systems work for about 80 km (50 miles), and airborne equipment for 320 km (200 miles). OTH radar gets around the limit by sending beams up to the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer of charged atoms that begins some 75 km (46 miles) above the earth's surface. The signals are reflected by the ionosphere over the horizon, where...
...Philadelphia, the Harvard heavyweight crew caught a boat-jarring crab with a four-seat lead in the last 100 meters that brought the varsity eight to a screeching halt and allowed the Penn and Navy boats to pass it. The Crimson then paddled across the finish line a distant 40 seconds behind the Quakers...
Even with good grades and high test scores, I should have known that I was courting rejection by the sheer act of applying. The odds of getting into schools like Harvard and Dartmouth that year were worse than 1 out of 4. Perhaps if I had lived somewhere distant like Indiana or California, I might have found comfort in raging against the injustice of East Coast elitism. My problem was that by my senior year in high school, I was already an insufferable East Coast snob. So by the social standards of suburban Connecticut in the mid-1960s, the multiple...