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...Chicago real estate man, Rumsfeld attended the New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., gaining renown as a 150-lb. state wrestling champion. He won a scholarship to Princeton, married his high school sweetheart Joyce Pierson, and from 1954 to 1957 was a Navy pilot. Leaving the service as a lieutenant (j.g.), he became a congressional aide-and struck up a friendship with Michigan Representative Jerry Ford. In 1962 Rumsfeld began his own political career by winning the safe Republican congressional seat on Chicago's wealthy North Shore...
...major upsets of the day Radcliffe junior Wiki Royden made her mark as one of the primary contenders as a national singles oarswoman as she out-stroked perennial winner Gail Pierson...
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET Screenplay by FRANK PIERSON...
...equipment and training with little or no coaching, U.S. oarswomen had suddenly arrived as a major force in international racing. Now, for the first time, they can see themselves as serious contenders for a gold medal in next summer's Olympics. "Our potential," says Number Two Oar Gail Pierson, "is still untapped...
...crew Parker culled from this summer's candidates is a shellful of diversity. The veteran at 34 is Pierson, an M.I.T. economics professor who plans to take a year's leave from teaching to concentrate on rowing. Claudia Schneider, a 23-year-old graduate of Long Beach State, has discovered a fighting streak in herself. "Ninety percent of rowing is between the ears," she says. "You don't have to be born an athlete." Carol Brown, 22, a political science major at Princeton, admits, "I'm a masochist. I like to work myself very hard...