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Sunday afternoon Harvard faces Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia--the crew which kept the Crimson out of the Olympics in 1964--and crews from New Zealand and Australia which finished first and second at the North Americans...
...Zealand and Australia will race in the tournament as guests, but the important competition will be between Harvard and Vesper who are competing for the title of U.S. Champion and the right to represent the United States at the European Championships in Vichy, France, next month...
After a strong start Harvard dropped behind West Germany and New Zealand and was never really in contention. And just a few hundred feet from the finish line the Australians swept past Harvard (and West Germany) to take second place...
...surprise came when West Germany--which everybody figured as the number one crew--was beaten in the second trial heat by New Zealand. This doesn't mean, however, that West Germany is out of the competition. Like Harvard, New Zealand wins an automatic spot in the finals, but all of yesterday's losers enter another heat today, and West Germany should easily make it to the finals...
...Parliament dared to call for the welfare state's demise, for such a proposal would be political suicide in New Zealand. But something had to be done to get wool sales going again. So, after weeks of deliberation, the wool commission decided to lower its protective floor price 8?, to a more realistic 39? per lb., for the coming year. It hopes that with a bit of luck, the state will have to buy little of the next crop...