Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freshman Lightweight Crew...
...Varsity Lightweight Crew...
...trucks, locomotives and buses in the U.S. for decades. But their use in cars is a relatively recent phenomenon. Patented in the 1890s by Rudolf Diesel, a brilliant German engineer who died in 1913, the engine, in its various types, burns almost any hydrocarbon: alcohol blends, benzene, kerosene, even lightweight heating oil. Rudolf Diesel himself fueled an early experimental model with powdered coal. Another advantage: diesels do away with the gasoline engine's frequently troublesome spark ignition system. Diesel fuel is injected into the cylinders and made to explode by compression...
Dotty Kent and Jackie Backman assist Huntsman in coaching the team. Kent, a captain of the lightweight varsity crew for the last two years, and Backman, a stroker for the U.S. Olympic women's eight team, are part of the apprenticeship program aimed at developing female crew coaches...
Harvard fours, including two boats made up by splitting the undefeated eight that conquered Henley last July, secured fourth, fifth, and seventh places in a race won by the U.S. Olympic four from Vesper. The lead lightweight fours grabbed third in a contest in which the difference between that place and the sixth was .6 seconds...