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...fifth Grand Challenge Cup triumph of all time was never in doubt after the national champion Crimson crew gained a length lead less than halfway through the one-mile, 50-yard course on the River Thames...
...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...
Police were baffled this summer when a Harvard summer school student and a Cambridge man discovered two skulls on a north Cambridge street. The skulls, found in a plastic bag about a quarter mile from Porter Square, were partially caked with wax. After several weeks of investigation, police officials determined that the skulls were most likely part of some ritual service and unrelated to any crime...
...concept now completely out of favor). In 1968 Gold was the first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right). In the mid-1960s he sparked another ruckus by predicting that the first spacecraft to land on the moon could encounter a mile-thick layer of dust that, if loose, would engulf the vehicle (the lunar surface, of course, was perfectly firm...
About 10,000 cheering supporters greeted Benazir when she arrived from Karachi at Larkana's Moenjodaro airstrip near the Bhutto family compound. She was received warmly along an 18-mile motorcade route into the city by peasants waving black flags of mourning as well as the red, black and green banner of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, which her father founded and which remains the most popular party in Pakistan. Final prayers for her brother, held in a Larkana sports stadium, were attended by an estimated 25,000 people, many of whom cheered, "Long live Benazir!" Several thousand more...