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...talkative and gregarious, unlike his coach, who rations out words much like the Navy rations bath towels. He is the sort of athlete you want sitting in the stroke seat when Penn starts sprinting on your starboard side, and Harvard takes a quick twenty over to port. Calm, unexcitable...
Along with the seating change, Gladstone has "German Rigged" the boat for today's race. In such an arrangement both the four and five positions are manned by starboard oarsmen. This moves a port man into the bow slot. The results have been decisive, if this week's practices are any indication. The lightweight's practice workouts since Monday have been the best of the season...
Peter Falk will be anchoring the starboard side at seven followed by captain Todd Craun at six, Ed Ford at five, Walt Fry at four, Marc Bergschneider at three. Craig Taylor and Tom O'Brien will complete the boat at two and bow respectively...
...Buchanan's two automatic five-inch guns, with a maximum range of twelve miles, is trained to starboard. A voice rasps over the ship's loudspeaker: "Stand by. Mount 52. Two salvos." Five seconds later, the gun shreds the night. A pale orange flame shoots from the muzzle, and a 70-lb. shell whistles through the air en route to a target more than three miles inland from the Vietnamese coastline...
...Settling in Hong Kong, he opened a small import-export business. Relatives urged him to invest in real estate, but he had learned the hard way to prefer investments that were not tied down or vulnerable to government takeover. "I wanted movable assets," he explains. Without knowing port from starboard, he scraped together the down payment for a Liberty-type freighter...