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...Thorpe, are you guilty or not guilty?" The clerk's loud, unemotional voice carried across the small, airless courtroom to the oak and glass-paneled dock. The tallest of the four defendants, a somber figure in a dark gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...
...heavyweight varsity eight pulled up to the dock after Sunday's 5:15 p.m. final, Harry Parker was standing silently, his yellow rain slicker wrapped carelessly about one arm. The concrete countenance, which carried with it power and dignity, revealed a slight grimmace that accentuated the signs of strain in Parker's weathered skin. The Schoenbrod shell glided to a halt as Parker grabbed one of the oars and pulled the boat closer to the dock...
Around the corner of the boathouse, on the edge of the dock and in the warm cheers of the Eli-infested multitudes, the massive Yale eight was gathered, Worcester Bowl held high, as photographers flashed cameras and reporters fired questions. Jubilation filled the deep blue ecstasy of the Bulldog reverie, and champagne quenched New Haven thrists where it had once satiated Cambridge appetites...
...encouraging-enough fashion, the freshman lightweights led off with an upset win over Yale. The three-second victory brought a dock-side eruption from the crowd. It left the freshmen in delerium as they accepted the lightweight trophy amid a champagne shower that ended with everyone pulling each other into the lake--as the delighted crowd howled...
...coach Peter Raymond watched his charges leave the boat in funereal silence, seven seat Pasha Lakhdhir remained on the dock, his feet resting in the boat and his head buried in his arm. The letdown, the sudden drain of adrenalin and the misery of a second loss to despised Yale kept him rooted there for a good three minutes. Finally Raymond's hand descended to grab the hand of his disconcerted oarsman, and the pair walked away from the shell for moment, in the somber aftermath of defeat...