Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dodson remembers delivering babies on two separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
...Kendall, searching for herself. In a few days she finds a factory job, a frowzy flat and a blond boy friend. The appalling squalor of the slums appeals to Kendall, largely because it seems to have the beat of life that was missing from her deadly home across the river in wealthy Chelsea...
...potential of the team was first manifested on May 2, when the Crimson left Princeton two lengths behind and set a Charles River (1 3/4 miles) record...
Heavyweight coach Harry Parker described yesterday's conditions on the river as "essentially free of ice" for the first time. His oarsmen have been making sporadic forays onto the ice-choked Charles since last Wednesday, but now on-the-water training can begin in earnest...
Last year, the river was very late in breaking up, even later than this season. Usually, the crew is out of Newell Boathouse by the end of the first week in March...