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...fact, the University Treasurer has yet to purchase a shell. Robert F. Herrick '90, crew captain in 1889, was the greatest contributor to Crimson crews while he lived, and when he died in 1942 he left a substantial bequest to the H.A.A. for crew...
...Soviet government, explained Chief Engineer George Herrick, needs some wave bands for its own purposes; it cannot well afford to jam all the frequencies all the time. Its need for air room is accentuated by the fact that Russia has few long-distance telegraph or telephone lines. Cities get along with three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent...
Another trick, says Herrick, is to broadcast the important news slowly (ten-to-twelve words a minute) in International Code. A great many Russians, Herrick believes, learned to receive code during the war. The jammers try to block this, too, but code is harder to jam than voice transmission...
...Russian radio listener, it is no easy job to follow the VOA. He must keep his hand on his tuning knobs and skip from frequency to frequency as the battle of the wave bands rages over his head. Do many try? Herrick thinks they do. Like any other people, he says, the Russians enjoy doing something the government tells them...
...secretary are Jeannette Beatty, Jean Berko, Ethel Bronstein, Julie Paxton, and Gracia Taketa; for treasurer, Nina Boheln, Elizabeth Gray, Marianne Rudolf, and Constance Smith; and for council representative, Vicki Blass, Carol Cummings, Dele Gilmore, Anne Friedrich, Judith Herrick, Nancy Jenny, Pat Kook, Marie-Beth Walsh, Jane Whitehill, and Lois Williams