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...take the rock. While Al Shealey and Co, were showing off their painting skills, freshman coach Ted Washburn was holding opposing Yale forces at bay. Action actually got a little hot and heavy with near fisticuffs resulting (Washburn's launch suffered a broken windshield from a frustrated and defeated Eli...
...company has had no leader since the February suicide of Chairman Eli M. Black, who had created United Brands in 1970 by merging his own AMK Corp. with United Fruit Co. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into Black's death uncovered a $1.25 million bribe United Brands had paid to a high official in Honduras in order to win a reduction in export taxes on bananas (TIME, April 21).* Last week the company disclosed that the U.S. Attorney in New York had subpoenaed documents relating to other possible payoffs in Italy, West Germany, Panama and Costa Rica...
...Haven tradition where both crews attempt to paint a certain rock at the starting line with their respective school colors, coaches Peter Huntsman and John Baker teamed up with coxswains Nancy Hadley and Amy Sacks to paint a large black square with a white Radcliffe "R" on the Eli dock, the official's boat, a starting-line rock, and a TV tower midway through the course. This occurred at midnight on Friday. The Bulldogs refused to be outdone, though, and repainted them all by noon Saturday...
...highly-touted Eli boat finished third, a length astern of Wisconsin. "We wanted it so badly. It was just a matter of going out there and doing it," coxswain Nancy Hadley said after the race...
...other races, the Harvard freshmen triumphed over their Eli and Tiger counterparts, although Princeton did come on in the last part of that race to push the Crimson Yardlings. Harvard goes into next week's Sprints undefeated...