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...second, Yale third-and Vesper was left at the line. But then Harvard sliced out in front of Cal, and Vesper began to move up. At the 800-meter mark, with 1,200 meters to go, the Philadelphians drew even with Harvard, edged ahead-and never looked back. Eight tulip-shaped oars swinging as one, they took the stroke up to 40 at the end, swept to a one-length victory in 6 min. 1.3 sec.-fastest time of the entire Olympic trials...
Using the tulip-shaped oars popularized by Germany's 1960 Olympic-winning Ratzeburg crew, the high-stroking Californians soon jumped into a boat-length lead. From then on, they unconcernedly looked back at their pursuers for the length of the Olympic-size 2,000-meter course. At the finish, the coxswain took the stroke up to 40 for kicks, and California slid across in 6 min. 31 sec. Adding insult to injury, another Western crew, the University of Washington, was second, nearly two lengths back, and exhausted Cornell was a sorely beaten third...
...good possibilities in the sixth at Longchamps. But all the Humbert Humberts, three-quarters of the Lucky Pierres, and half the women of France reserve their special attention for 19-year-old Sylvie Vartan, a beautiful blonde in the rinsed and leggy French tradition, with a mouth like a tulip and the look of a middle-aged child. She is their Chouchou Numero...
...Harvard crew does not row with the regular American oar but uses a European "tulip" or "shovel" oar. The new style has served well, and the Crimson has lowered the Charles River record for 2000 meters twice this season--first by beating Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup (the record fell from 6:15.4 to 6:00.1), and again by whipping Navy and Penn for the Adams Cup (the new record...
Going Dutch with a tiny admirer, Governor George Romney, 55, enjoyed himself at the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan. Before the day ended, Romney was out there in costume scrubbing the streets-and his demonstration that a new broom sweeps clean must have pleased Republicans who see the Governor as presidential timber for 1964. Soon to come on Romney's busy schedule is a speechmaking date in Washington at the National Press Club, a favorite proving ground for potential candidates...