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...weekend off. That was after Grenada declared a "national alert," announcing that a U.S. invasion was imminent. But while U.S. ships were supposed to be unloading counterrevolutionaries onto the beaches, the People's Revolutionary Government was still encouraging neighboring Trinidad's yachtsmen to hold their annual regatta there. When the Trinidadians asked, naturally enough, if their boats might not run into the U.S. Marines, they were told to come ahead "since the invasion only affects Grenadians...
Saturday's sinking of the Midshipmen, upping Harvard's season slate to 3-1, allows the oarsmen to enter next Saturday's important Harvard-Yale-Princeton race on a positive note The New Jersey regatta will doubtless provide the Crimson lights with stiff competition Earlier this season Princeton beat Navy by a bigger margin than the Crimson, and Yale is expected to be equally tough...
Dartmouth, a token entrant in this regatta (having never won it) since its inception in 1955, limped to the finish line well behind the two Cambridge boats...
...Radcliffe sailing team won its third regatta in as many weeks over the weekend, topping nine rivals in the Charles River basin to take the Emily Wick trophy. Its winning point total of 51 bested Brown by seven and Tufts...
...regatta marked the squad's last outing before the qualifiers for the nationals next weekend at Tufts...