Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splendid day for the seventh annual Henley-on-Todd Regatta, high point of the year for the outback town of Alice Springs, Australia. In broiling sunshine, yachts representing Australia and the U.S. fought it out for the Australia's Cup, while sun-bronzed Aussie and Yank oarsmen strained for the rowing championship. Children fished happily while lifeguards on surfboards kept an eye out for bikinied girls in distress. But as any Aussie will tell you, this was no run-of-the-millstream regatta. Consider...
...perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark for his age, and well-manicured fingers and lacquered nails clutching a copy of Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe...
...finishers in the Easterns for the Crimson will make up the Harvard NCAA entry. They are captain Bruce Lopucki, next year's captain Yank Heisler, Jack Purdy, Barney Oldfield and Tommy Wynne...
This was LoPucki's 13th victory, tying him with teammate Yank Heisler, Frank Dodge '59, and Ted Cooney '54 for most in one season. But LoPucki's winning percentage was the highest of the four...
...Yank Heisler, playing behind LoPucki, was the only Harvard golfer to defeat one of Dartmouth's talented sophomores. He needed only 15 holes to down Dave Hill...