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...gate. Flushed from adjoining gardens by the twelve Secret Service agents and 20 Mexican police assigned to guard the U.S. Secretary of State, the reporters and photographers followed the Kissingers' every move. Carloads pursued the couple when they went into town. A motor-boatload of newsmen rocked their sloop during an afternoon sail. Kissinger finally negotiated a truce halfway through the ten-day honeymoon. In exchange for a press conference, the newsmen agreed to leave the couple alone. Summoning the press to the house of Mexican Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa, Kissinger, dressed in a white guayabera (a casual Mexican...
...Saturday, the Crimson qualified for the New England Sloop Championships to be held October 13, by placing second in a field of seven, two points behind a tough Brown squad...
Rounding out the field were Tufts with 23 points, Yale 23, Northeastern 26 and Maine Maritime with a whopping 35 biggies. The first three teams qualified for the New England Sloop Championship...
Radcliffe gained wins this year in the Sloop Shrew Trophy regatta, April 14-15, the President's Trophy regatta, April 22, and the CCT Invitational, May 12. In the Sloop Shrew race Radcliffe topped second-place MIT, 40-60. B.U. finished third with 78 points...
...telescope mount. The clamps will be used to anchor lines running to the trapezoid-shaped covering. As the lines are tightened, the shade will be pulled into its proper position like the spinnaker on a sailboat (the analogy especially pleases Conrad, who recently acquired a 34-ft. sloop). If this fails, the crew will try again after they have boarded Skylab. One possibility: two of the astronauts will crawl out of a hatch in the space laboratory's airlock module and try to position another Mylar covering over the damaged section with a long extension...