Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's undefeated lightweight varsity crew will row in three of Europe's biggest regattas this summer, coach Bo Andersen said yesterday. As in years past, the Friends of Harvard Rowing have agreed to sponsor the tour...
Right next to him sat Graham Hill in another turbine, and in the fourth row was Art Pollard in the last STP car. Pollard had never even been in the car prior to his qualifying run. No piston-powered car came within two miles per hour of Leonard's record-breaking...
Jarvis began the first session, and every one after that, by asking if everyone had meditated that night. Yes, everyone had. "How was it?" he asked one girl in the first row. Well, she had been distracted by other thoughts, and by a record player in the room next to hers. Jarvis nodded knowingly, and said that outside noise, and thoughts, and feelings would not harm meditation. "How about if the speed of the mantra changes?" one fellow asked. Jarvis was pleased. "If the mantra changes speed, that is good," he answered. Another boy stood up and was really worried...
...destruction was too widespread to be happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...
...think it grossly unfair and inequitable that a crew which failed to qualify under the rules was allowed to row simply because of "the forceful intervention of heavyweight coach Harry Parker." We ask why have heats in the morning if a crew can qualify for the finals simply on the strength of its reputation. Two false starts in a trial heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent...