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...Crimson copped the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Royal Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England, with a three and two-third lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years...
...Henley, there was no argument. The Tigers took a slight lead at the start of the race, but, by the quarter-mile point, the Crimson began to pull away, leading by a bow. Princeton tried to answer Harvard's whirlwind start with spurts between the half-mile to one-mile markers, but made no real impression...
...Harvard junior varsity heavyweight crew was not as lucky. The j.v. boat was beaten Saturday in Henley's second most important race for eights, the Ladies Challenge Plate, losing in the quarterfinals by a half-length to a formidable Irish crew, Garda Siochana...
Elsewhere on the men's side, the heavyweight crew this year claimed the Eastern Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regatta in England against the world's best crews. And the baseball, sailing, squash, tennis and track teams are all perennial contenders...
...that there's nothing to worry about even though the plane has no landing wheels. Females are assigned the social role of grinning all the time, Ralph. It's one way men keep women in their place. Vivian Gornick talks about "that damned dazzling smile," and Social Psychologist Nancy Henley calls it "woman's badge of appeasement" that placates the more powerful male. Henley did some experiments showing that women smile 89% of the time in social encounters, while men smile only 67%. And 26% more of female-to-male smiles are not returned...