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...spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race...
...housecleaning was symbolic of a clean sweep that overtook Germany's whole political household in the huge (86% of all eligible voters) turnout of last week's general election. With one sweep of the electoral broom, some 28 million German voters had pushed aside all the troublesome, totalitarian splinter groups (including Communists and Neo-Nazis) that clutter most European politics, giving Germany alone of Europe's nations a workable two-party Parliament in the pattern of Britain...
...Yardlings and the Big Red had traded the lead for most of the race, but in the last sprint, Cornell, a big crew for a freshman eight, overtook Coach Bill Leavitt's shell. In this race, the most exciting of the day, the Crimson also surprised the experts, as it had been seeded only third...
Wisconsin and Cornell were neck and neck in the sprint, but the Badgers just overtook the Big Red to finish third. Columbia and Penn were fifth and sixth...
...second Harvard record fell in the 150-yard individual medley, the most exciting event of the meet. Charlie Egan, a body length behind and in last place as he went into the final 50-yard sprint, overtook his opponents and won by half a length. His time of 1:38.7 eclipses by one-tenth of a second the record formerly held by Sandler and himself...