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...senior in high school, the California native won the state championship in the half-mile. Four years later, McCurdy captained the Stanford track team and qualified for the Olympic trials...
...Belgrano, the Argentines announced-mistakenly it turned out-that yet another navy vessel had been lost. According to Buenos Aires, a dispatch ship, the Sobral, had been fired on by British missile-carrying Lynx helicopters as it searched for a downed Canberra bomber crew within the 200-mile zone. The British said that the Sobral and another Argentine boat had been hit and at least one sunk. A day later, the Sobral limped back into the Argentine port of Deseado with eight dead crewmen...
...troops, who must be kept fit and ready for operations should they be required." Few people, even among the 1,700 would-be passengers whose 13-day cruise from Southampton to the Mediterranean had been abruptly canceled, quarreled with that as sertion. The QE2 can make the 8,000-mile voyage to the Falklands in about ten days at a speed of 28.5 knots (or 32.8 land miles per hour). Its speed gives it the capability of escaping from an attack by a conventional diesel-powered submarine, which can do 19 knots on the surface and 16 when submerged...
...brightest spot for Harvard came at the end of the championships in the two-mile relay. Barrett led off the Crimson charge, eking out a small lead over Penn State's Munane, then Grace deFires took over and hung on. Herlihy, running third, passed Penn's competitor in the final stretch of her leg, and freshman All-American Jenny Stricker put the icing on the win, solidifying a new University record of 8:53 in the process...
...meticulously described by that the most interesting and readable portions of the book Kiesling seems to remember every stroke of every race he rowed for four years and makes even non-rowers feel the pain and the adrenaline of a race In particular. The Race, the grueling, four-mile marathon held annually in June between Harvard and Yale's heavy weight crews...