Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it to Philadelphia. As a reward, and primarily as a final test, Penn sent their excellent varsity heavies, a good four-with-coxswain, and their undefeated freshman heavies to Henley. The experiment failed Badly...
...unheralded Yale 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...
...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...
...reminding us what was to come that night. And it seemed to pacify, for a while at least, the crowd on the hill behind Festival Field. But as the afternoon wore on into evening (and the traffic backed up for miles and it took two hours to drive four blocks) the crowd on the hill grew and the tension kept building. During the show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept pushing forward (a girl from Englewood N.J. somehow managed to make it from...
...semiskilled workers on the assembly line, the mobiles have been largely unaffected by the soaring costs of conventional construction. Within the past ten years, they have become by far the No. 1 source of low-cost housing in the U.S., accounting for at least three out of every four homes sold for less than $15,000. Sales reached 300,000 units worth $2 billion last year, and they are likely to top $3 billion...