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WORCESTER--After the Eastern prints yesterday a young man stood on the shore peddling "sprints shirts" with which buyers could "remember the day that Harvard lost." Despite the fact that Harvard garnered the Rowe Cup which goes to the strongest heavyweight squad overall, and captured the second varsity race, the peddler was right--the 1978 sprints will be remembered as the day that the Crimson lost. Harvard finished second in the heavyweight varsity race for the first time since 1973, falling to an upstart Yale boat half-filled with sophomores...
...varsity heavies, however, didn't fare quite as well in the steadily worsening slop. Racing in the farthest lane from the sheltered shore, the Cliffe suffered a couple overhead crabs and a seat off its track that left the stroke without an oar for almost a third of the race, eventually limping in fifth in a field led by Princeton and UMass...
...same time, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was off on an eight-day, four-city campaign among American Jews to shore up support for his policies and build opposition to Carter's plans to sell advanced fighter planes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as Israel...
Cecil Andrus, who was twice elected Governor of Idaho before moving to Washington to become Secretary of the Interior last year. He revisited them last week, floating down the Snake in an inflatable rubber "snout boat" and heading to shore frequently to stop and survey the vistas. "I've been watching that old bird for years," said Andrus as he removed his battered stetson and stooped to peer through a telescope at a golden eagle perched like a gargoyle on a precipice. The eagle was not the only acquaintance Andrus renewed on the trip, which was organized...
...least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker's art critic and the author of acute social novels and stories (The Farther Shore, The Hour After Westerly). One encomium on his work is contained in an aside: "Once a scholar asked to see his letters from Gertrude Stein. 'Sorry, but I didn't keep them,' Coates answered. 'That's funny,' the scholar said. 'Miss Stein kept your...