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Unlike sprints, where boats line up bow to bow and race for 2000 meters along a straight course with the first one across the finish line declared the winner, boats in each event in the Head start at ten-second intervals and race 5000 meters (about three miles) upstream from the down-stream edge of the Boston University boat house (in the Charles River Basin) to a point in the Metropolitan District Commission park near the Ramada Inn. Keeping track of the times and comparing them, a computer can then show who won the particular event...
...with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy-equipment company (1980 sales: $613 million). Financing for the $28 million project came from Chase Manhattan Bank, Mutual of New York insurance company...
...death toll to 20 victims. The body was identified as that of Curtis Walker, 13, who had been missing since Feb. 19, when he failed to return home after looking for after-school work. Officials speculate that Walker's body may have been dropped into the river upstream from an overpass. Cause of death: asphyxiation...
...long-distance travelers, the business people, tourists, college students ask the strangest questions. Is this the Delaware Water Gap? (No, that scenic stretch where the river slices through Kittatinny Mountain is more than 100 miles upstream.) Am I in Washington, D.C.? What state is Delaware the capital...
...Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash. The FBI determined from the serial numbers that the $4,000 was part of Cooper's loot. Using picks and shovels, agents unearthed fragments of several more bills, some buried 3 ft. deep. FBI officials speculate that the money and Cooper landed somewhere upstream and that floods washed the bills to their final resting place. Said FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been investigating the hijacking for more than eight years: "The money didn't make it out. As for whether Cooper did, I'll leave that to conjecture...