Word: towpaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rowing on the Thames," Swayze recalled. "Harvey had some problems coaching us, though; he had to ride a bicycle along the crowded towpath on the riverside. The team's only problem was the Thames' queen swans and British officials who usually put us on edge with their picayunish observances of lining-up procedures...
Died. Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, Washington abstract artist and niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot; of bullet wounds in the head and chest inflicted by an unsuccessful robber, while she was taking a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath near her Georgetown studio...
...Bobby Kennedy, the Administration's touch-football quarterback, who took the field in defense of the New Frontier's own honor. Rousting four Justice Department aides out of bed to accompany him, the Attorney General and three dogs set out at 5 a.m. along the towpath of the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Where the path was not slick with ice, it was gooey with mud, but Bobby's scuffed Cordovan oxfords never faltered...