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Sailing well despite flukey conditions, Division A skipper Barbie Grant, with Beth Goddard as crew, took 5 firsts in the 12 race series, and ran away with top-boat honors with only 27 points. In Division B, Janice Stroud, with Kathy Angell as crew, did even better, capturing 7 firsts and never finishing worse than third. In the twelfth race Angell took over as skipper and contributed a first...
...captain George Putman with John Dodge as crew sailed in Division A for Harvard, and took three firsts in the five races to upset the Engineers' ace skipper Allen Spoon. In Division B co-captain David Brownlee with Doug Libby alternated with Chris Middendorf and Edgar Pulitzer, and the two combinations pulled out a second place behind MIT's entry...
This weekend the Crimson will be spreading themselves thin as they compete in three major events. Their emphasis will be on the Kennedy Cup at the Naval Academy where George Putnam will skipper the Crimson's eight-man yawl team. But the Ivy League championships and the Fries Trophy regatta, a major New England event, are also this weekend...
U.S.A.F., 36, who will accompany Young to the surface of the moon, makes an ideal foil for his more taciturn skipper. Born and reared in the Carolinas, the easygoing space rookie still speaks in a casual drawl. He has also managed to achieve a space first of sorts. He asked for-and got -grits (dehydrated) on his breakfast menu for this month's moon trip. But Duke's playfulness is deceptive. He was class valedictorian in prep school (Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Fla.), graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy and later earned a master...
Once the ship was captured, the French police could not find a reason to hold either the vessel or its skipper. An initial search revealed nothing. Then, a full day later, the agents suddenly noted that the ship's concrete ballast seemed to be oddly positioned. They attacked the concrete with pickaxes. In the center they discovered a cache that contained 40 plastic bags of pure heroin-presumably processed in the South of France and destined for the U.S. French officials announced that the narcotics haul was the largest in history: 937 Ibs. of pure heroin worth between...