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...seven-man team is bolstered by two outstanding freshmen from California Peter Hersh and Peter Kellog-and one from the Philippines-Phil Jonkeer. The West coast is traditionally better water polo country...
Last week Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci named a seven-man board representative of tenants, landlords, and neutrals to suggest candidates for the sensitive post of Cambridge rent control administrator. The administrator, who will probably be named before Oct. 17, will enforce the new lower rents and arbitrate individual disputes between landlords and tenants...
More importantly, Parker places a higher value upon rowing one's best, rather than winning. In fact, when his seven-man hurt his hand so severely before the Stein Cup race last April that he was a questionable starter, Parker allegedly told his crew that he would seriously consider forfeiting the regatta, one the Crimson was sure to win easily, if the oarsmen could not compete. He was that concerned about the shell staying together as a unit...
Fact No. 2: Last week the entire top echelon of the Swiss government-the seven-man Federal Council, or Cabinet-was off on vacation...
After sailing for 57 days in a 40-ft. reed raft resembling a basket, Thor Heyerdahl and his seven-man international crew reached the Caribbean island of Barbados, 3,200 miles across the Atlantic from their point of departure on the Moroccan coast. Happy to have demonstrated with Ra II (Ra I was abandoned last year 600 miles from Barbados) that the ancient Egyptians, who sailed such papyrus craft, could have discovered America 40 centuries ago, Heyerdahl proudly noted that his vessel had survived its journey intact. Ra II will eventually be installed in an Oslo museum alongside an earlier...