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Harvard was incredibly impressive even in defeat. The first words spoken by the delirious Vesper oarsmen when they stepped onto the dock after the race were words of praise for Harvard...
...plans encountered no roadblocks, Morrill said, the new annex might have been opened by September. However, the new design--which includes a loading dock on the lower end of the building near Brattle St.--will not be ready for a month...
...Dock Creates Problems...
Smugglers & Taxidermists. On and on it went, from state Governors down to civil servants. The Governor of Amazonas state was found to have staked out a huge ranch along the banks of the Amazon, added an airstrip, dock and warehouse, and used it to run up a whirlwind trade in smuggled goods. Another former state Governor coolly pocketed an entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks...
...that he acted as a black, not a Red. His inspiration, he argued, had come not from Moscow or Peking but from the Zulu and Xhosa chieftains who fought long and skillfully against the technologically superior Boers a century ago. "This," he said in a dramatic peroration from the dock, "is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a demo cratic and free society, in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity...