Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week he finally announced his man: Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld. Presiding over OEO's burnt-out shell seemed to be an extremely un promising job for an ambitious, attractive young Republican like "Rummy" Rumsfeld. He would be giving up one of the safest seats in Congress: his constituents had sent him to Congress four straight times. But, argued the White House, running OEO will be only a portion of his responsibility. Rumsfeld will also have full Cabinet status and be a presidential assistant (salary: $42,500, equal to congressional pay). Finally, he will sit on Pat Moynihan...
...Crimson should row its usual race, coming off the line at a high 45 strokes per minute for the first ten pulls, dropping to about a 41 for the next ten, and then setting to about a 37 until the final sprint. Parker decided to take the Peacock shell because of the "pretty good chance of some rough water," but since the crew has raced in the shell the last two times out, it should have no effect on their performance...
Once again Crimson coach Harry Parker elected to use the heavier Pocock shell instead of the varsity's regular Stampfli. An eight-knot tail wind which made the Charles too choppy for the Stampfli was the only factor marring near perfect rowing conditions...
...only was Ethel the right girl to draw the shy Bobby out of his shell, but also she had the proper temperament and family background to suit the tightly knit, boisterous and opinionated Kennedy circle. At Bobby's behest, Ethel threw herself with abandon into older brother Jack's 1946 campaign for a House seat from Massachusetts. The year after her graduation from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1949, Ethel and Bobby?then a law student at the University of Virginia?were married in Greenwich, with Representative John F. Kennedy (D., Mass.) as best...
...Crimson lightweights had a rougher time of it this weekend as they edged M.I.T. for their fifth straight Biglin Bowl victory Dartmouth, the other shell in the race was never in the competition for the lead...