Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds' "engine room" between seven and four seats sports three who are making their rowing debuts. At port, behind Hadik, Bob Volpe came fresh to Harvard from Loomis. Tall, slim John Lizars holds down number five position, but never handled an oar before, and rangy Keith Garland rows out of the crucial four spot...
Second eight ends up regularly behind the first. It includes but two experienced men--stroke, Brett Langstaff and number one, Nick Daniloff. Between the bow and stern are Vic Harwood, at port seven and Peter Viles at six. Fifth seat is held down by Tom Williams, with Ridge Green at number four and Bailey Silbert at port three. Troy Brown in two position rounds out the shell...
...them dead of thirst, who had been dumped on a lonely shore and told to walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts and through jungles, to get to Port Sudan. There last month they bought passage from a Yemeni ship captain named Hamed Ghalib, and boarded his sambuk...
...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...
...come close enough to the reef to take them off. Instead, the two sailors and two of the Nigerians swam out to the sambuk, which sailed away-for help, the pilgrims thought. But no help came. The pilgrims did not know it, but the four rescued men, on reaching Port Sudan, had been hidden in the Fellata and told not to talk under threat of death. Another pilgrim fell into the sea and the sharks took him quickly. All the pilgrims were now drinking sea water, praying, and talking hysterically in the night...