Word: raven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailing in the Raven class, the Crimson was hurt by poor starts in the first and last races. The second place finish, however, guarantees Harvard a place in the final competition later this fall...
...Crimson's success on Sunday will depend to a large extent on how the team fares the day before, when they return to New London for the New England Sloop Championships. Ford will skipper a Raven crew which includes Peter Drake, Mike Horn, and Rock Pring. Ford skippered the crew which won last year's championship, and the pressure is on for the Crimson crew this year. Ford hopes skillful spinnaker work will make the difference in this year's competition. Also racing in this first heat will be boats from Babson, B.U., the Coast Guard Academy, Middlebury, Northeastern...
...Ravens & Wild Roses. Not quite so uncompromising in their attitude were two New Mexico physicians and their families who camped last week at Vallecito, in Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Hemotologist Samuel Painter, who had camped in the rough before, this time had a rented trailer for his wife and four children because he wanted to save his pregnant wife the heavy work of tent camping. Cardiologist James Conrad and his wife and two children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping...
Jack Javits agonized over the decision. He had compelling personal reasons for returning to New York. His raven-haired wife Marion loathes Washington and refuses to live there; Javits therefore commutes by plane between Washington and New York two or three times a week. But Javits likes the Senate, and can satisfy his deep interest in foreign policy there. Said a top Republican who was present at the Roosevelt Hotel meeting: "Jack really has visions of public service and thinks he can do more in Washington than New York. Also, being the only Jew in the Senate means a great...
...before, Coast Guard sailors had asserted their extra-territorial rights over the Thames, winning an informal Raven race in which Yale finished second and Harvard, who didn't take a race all afternoon, wound up third and last...