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Conditions smiled on the race Saturday, and the Black and White's last sprint on the Charles this season carried all the traits of a crew panorama. Spectators lined the shores, crammed the MIT boathouse, and craned necks as the shells shot past. It was a nice day for a race, and a nice way for Radcliffe to race...
Returning J.V. oarsmen Tony McAuliffe, Matt Carrico and David Scheie and coxswain Alexandra Dixon already know a lot about winning and together with senior Mike Cominsky, who rowed varsity last year, Adam Bailey, Tony Kilbridge and Paul Midge, will try to defend their Eastern Sprint title...
...harriers should fare well in the 100-and 200-yd. events as the sprinters are comparatively flourishing in health. Tricaptain Joe Salvo and junior Jean Chapus will constitute a tough duo in the 100 and 200, and last year's returning sprint relay team, anchored by speedster Peter Nsaih, will pose a formidable threat on any track...
Starting last July, Boeing and General Dynamics each made ten test flights. Most were held over the bleak wastelands of the Utah Test and Training Range, near Dugway, Utah. The missiles were programmed to sprint at 500 m.p.h. round and round an aerial race course 100 miles long by 30 miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything...
...wasn't spring, it wasn't the Head, and it wasn't Banacek; but crew season was here again. And the ostensible absurdity of compressing five months of training into a five-minute sprint made perfect sense...