Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raymond might be considered lucky to have been rowing at all in 1972. After his graduation from Princeton, he had gone into naval aviation before considering that "since the Vietnam war was really going then" he might be safer in another part of the navy. Appropriately, even if only through what he terms "unbelievable luck," Raymond found himself coaching the Naval Academy freshman heavyweights in 1970 and 1971. His term over, he escaped from the Navy...
...rest of the cast, including Douglas, have parts that offer little depth of characterization. Douglas breezes through his role as an angry Vietnam vet-turned-freelance cameraman. The utitility company executives are all shown as thoroughly evil, motivated only by greed, while Godell's fellow technicians at the plant simply take orders--until well after the critical moment...
...serve the country if we were attacked, but not if we were in another situation like Vietnam," Douglas R. Mason '80 said yesterday...
Many other students cited the Vietnam war in their comments. "Vietnam horrifies people," Craig Gerhardt '79 said yesterday. "Most people are only willing to fight to defend American freedom," he added...
...traditional 10-0. I'd like to say something bad because they finished third in the country instead of the traditional first. I'd like to say something bad because they lost to both Princeton and Pennsylvania, marking the first time since The War (and I don't mean Vietnam) that a Crimson racquet squad has lost two matches in one season...