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...three-mile course, which starts at the Boston University Boat House, continues upstream to a point opposite the WBZ Tower. The first event begins at noon, and the last event will end at about...
...African porters, hired by white traders, who first labored their way 300 miles upstream on the Zambezi River called the spot Kebrabasa - "where the work ends." A huge gorge through which the Zambezi flows in the western panhandle of Mozambique, Kebrabasa has always been a dead end. There, according to legend, Dr. Livingstone turned around his wheezing paddle steamer MaRobert in 1858, musing that mastering the forbidding rocks would open wide the gates that have barred for centuries the interior of Portugal's second largest overseas possession...
After Amsterdam the Harvard lightweights will fly directly to England where they will prepare for the Henley trial heats, which take place July 10. On July 6 they will enter races at Reading, upstream from Henley. The Reading events are raced over a course of only about a mile and Andersen called it "a nice little tune-up regatta" in preparation for Henley...
...make no definite prediction, it said, until it sees the extent of upstream flooding. "We just don't know what it's going to do to us until we see what it does in Needham," an MDC official said...
...their families, in fact, almost eclipsed the Egyptians at last week's ceremony marking the dedication of a memorial to Soviet-Egyptian friendship and the completion of major construction on the Aswan High Dam, whose 364-ft.-high wall of concrete and clay blocks the Nile 560 miles upstream from Cairo. Because Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev decided not to come as planned and sent a deputy instead. Gamal Abdel Nasser made it even more of a Soviet show by staying away in a fit of pique...