Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race very low, at 32, while Penn maintained a cadence of 36-37. Cornell also stroked at 32. At 1000 meters it was Penn by three seats over Harvard. The sprint began. Cornell up to 35, and the Crimson finally mustering a closing 38. It was not enough to narrow the three-quarters length gap that separated Harvard from the winning Quakers, but it was almost enough to catch Cornell, which finished two seats ahead to place second...
Intrepid is most far-out way down under. Instead of a single rudder set on the keel, she has two-a main steering rudder set well aft on a long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs...
...given the picture a sense of on-location authenticity that transcends its simplistic symbolism. His casting, an amalgam of amateur and professional actors, is flawless. The blind girl literally lives her role; she is truly blind. The ragpicker (Sachiko Hidari), a painter who never acted before, is as narrow as a rice stalk, so emaciated that he sometimes seems to have two profiles in search of a face. But Hidari radiates a beggar's joie de vivre, in contrast to the boredom of the well-to-do. Thus he underlines the film's theme: in present-day privileged...
...recent performances. Ruken, who has done most of his campaigning in California, rules the second favorite with probable odds at 7-2. A come-from-behind triumph in the rich Santa Anita Derby, a narrow decision over Successor in an allowance race, and an easy triumph in the Stepping Stone Purse last Saturday are Ruken's major achievements...
...only blemish on the Green slate is a narrow 5-4 loss at Yale in an earlyseason contest. In that one Dartmouth held several match points before losing the deciding...