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last year, Travel Writer Jan Morris said her valedictory to cities. "I may go upstream," she wrote airily, "or strike into the mountains." Yet here she is on the shadowy streets of a once grand Mediterranean trading and resort metropolis, "a little compendium of the world's experience, historically, aesthetically, even perhaps spiritually...
Like most historical moments, the original meeting at the Elbe was not as crystalline as time and legend have etched it. The first encounter, on April 25, 1945, took place at Strehla, 18 miles upstream from Torgau; it involved a U.S. reconnaissance team of the 69th Infantry Division, led by Lieut. Albert Kotzebue. Three hours later another patrol, under Lieut. William D. Robertson, came upon a group of Soviet infantrymen near Torgau. Inching out onto the girders of a wrecked bridge over the Elbe, Robertson embraced Lieut. Alexander Silvashko of the 173rd Rifle Regiment...
...boaters a safe way of getting from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. It even offers the salmon who migrate through Lake Ontario an easy way to reach their spawning grounds. "Some salmon still fight the falls," explains Gunnlaugsson. "But the smart ones wait below the locks and go upstream with the boats." -By Peter Staler
...regatta was not without its mishaps and close calls. There were many near collisions and locked oars as boats jockeyed for position. The worst accident occurred when the South Niagara Youth Eight team crashed into the Eliot Street bridge a half-mile from the end of the three-mile upstream course. Moments later the boat was cut in two by Andover's entry. The boats were unable to move and had to be towed to shore...
...year's work--and will have 3400-3500 rowers competing in 700 boats. The racing begins at 9:30 a.m. and runs until the conclusion of the last event, which is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. The course starts at the Boston University boathouse and runs three miles upstream past Harvard to the WBZ tower. Jerry Olrich, a long-time race veteran, recommends the Weeks Bridge for optimum viewing as it is the approximate half-way point in the race...