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...crew, in a time trial row over the four-mile course this morning was forced to stop at the two-mile mark because of rough water. None of the men were overfatigued at that point. The Junior University crew and the combination crews had long rows at a low stroke...
...railroad bridge and then up the four miles over the regular racing course. The flags were not in place so that no effort was made to keep to the Race Day course. No time was taken for the trial. Coach Haines kept them rowing an alternately high and low stroke, changing every half mile...
Coach Brown has been experimenting with the Combination crew, and changed the seating three times on Saturday. O. A. Pendar '27 and D. S. Greer '29 were tried at stroke. W. K. Rice '27 and R. S. Riley '27 were placed at several different positions in the boat in order to determine the best arrangement, but no final line-up has been announced, and the trials will probably continue for a few days...
...Conn., June 14.--The University crew got down to work in earnest this afternoon when it paddled six miles without stopping, rowing to the bridge and back. On the return, the stroke was raised and the eight finished with beat held a 36 by F. R. Sullivan '27, who retains his position as coxswain in the University boat. The seating remained unchanged. No time was kept...
DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...