Word: vespers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew may have lost to Vesper, and the Government Department may be on sabbatical, but Harvard is still the best college in the country in one thing: producing corporate executives and directors...
...weight-lifting regimen to build shoulder muscles. The only thing that Adam didn't do was learn how to live with the few defeats that came his way. Last year, after Ratzeburg narrowly lost out in the Olympic finals to Philadelphia's hot-shot Vesper Boat Club, Adam locked himself up in a room for a full...
...weeks ago, Adam got his chance for revenge. At England's 126-year-old Henley Royal Regatta, the Ascot of crew racing, Vesper knocked off Harvard, the best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
That evened the score with Vesper, but it didn't settle anything. Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away...
...Neither Vesper's Olympic Champion crew, which beat Harvard at Henley a week ago, nor Germany's Ratzeburg boat, which that Vesper in the finals, rowed at Lucerne. But the crews Harvard t were the best of the rest, and included the top boats form four curtain countries...