Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four dumped Penn in the first round. The freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...
...afternoon beat down every challenge the mammoth Penn varsity threw at them. Penn tried a fast start, a crippling high stroke, and fierce power to try to overtake the Germans. All three methods were about the three-quarters of a length inadequate. The Grand Challenge Cup went back to East Germany, where it has been for four of the past five years...
...other American entries similarly failed in the final round. Seattle's Bill Tytus, the best United States entry in the Diamond Sculls lost badly to East German Jorg Bohmer, and the Trinity College varsity crew, undefeated in its first year of competition, fell to A.S.R. Nereus, a fine Netherlands club, by a length...
...kind, Israeli commandos raided an Egyptian coast guard station at Ras Adabiya, seven miles southwest of Suez. They claimed 15 Egyptians killed and a small radar station destroyed, at a cost of two men wounded. In a second raid, this time on Jordan, Israeli commandos blasted the $30 million East Ghor irrigation duct...
...Scarecrow came to her funeral; so did Andy Hardy. So, in spirit, did the countless legions of Judy Garland's fans, 21,000 of whom appeared in per son and jammed the streets of Manhattan's Upper East Side last week to file past the bier where her body, dressed in the ankle-length gown she had worn at her fifth wedding, lay in state. Many were moved to tears when a young girl from The Bronx began to play Judy's records on a battery-powered phonograph. Some, of course, came only out of curiosity. Others...