Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other U.S. officers on the famed secret submarine trip: Colonel (later Brigadier General) Archelaus L. Hamblen, shipping and supply expert; Captain (now Admiral) Jerauld Wright, Navy liaison man on Torch, now commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Colonel Julius C. Holmes, head of Torch's Civil Affairs branch, now the Secretary of State's special assistant for NATO. General Clark, retired, is president of The Citadel...
...bring only sniggers in the West. Rowing times, for example, are meaningless because wind and water conditions vary so widely from course to course. But Britain's Runner Sylvia Cheeseman, one of the few Western athletes to have seen the Red Chinese in training, came back from a trip behind the Bamboo Curtain convinced that Mao's big-brotherly encouragement to sport is no joke. "The coaches have to stop the athletes from killing themselves with overwork," she says. "The Chinese will be among the top three or four nations in sport in the next ten years...
Last spring a private donation enabled eight runners who made up the mile and two-mile relay teams to practice in the South during spring vacation, but this year's trip marks the first time that a full complement of track men has escaped the Cambridge weather...
...varsity tennis team will leave this weekend on its annual spring vacation trip south. This year, the team will spend all its time at Presbyterian College in Clinton...
...varsity, therefore, has scheduled matches at Clinton with two other visiting Northern schools, Kenyon College of Ohio and Kalamazoo of Michigan. The tennis team will also play against Presbyterian and Clemson during the Southern trip...