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Even more exasperating was a later 107-104 loss to the consistent Engineers in the Olberg Trophy regatta. Ford, Marshall, and Munnell battled back and forth with Tech all of a Sunday afternoon, but lost because they could not maintain the pace in the last few races...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: 'Homeless' Varsity Yachtsmen Cruise Through Year With Respectable Record | 11/29/1960 | See Source »

...Engineers edged the varsity 107-104 to steal the Olberg Trophy right from under their bowsprits. Also, three weeks ago Tech stole second place from the Crimson in a three-way tie which also involved Yale. The race committee gave places on points to Yale, M.I.T., and then the ill-starred Crimson...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Crimson Sailors Seek Double Win at Brown | 10/29/1960 | See Source »

...Tech skippers had their revenge yesterday, however, when they edged the Crimson for first in the Olberg Trophy Ragatta on the Charles Basin...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Yachtsmen Win NEISA Series, place Second in Olberg Regatta | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Prisoner Valentin P. Olberg took first honors with a confession that students at the Gorki Institute had been supplied by him with mimeographed copies of a plan of his own devising. The Olberg plan: one of the Institute's professors was to make up in the chemical laboratory bombs which students were to explode when reviewed by Stalin in Moscow on May Day 1936, blow up themselves and the entire Soviet Government who would be on the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Perfect Dictator | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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