Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants, and asked stridently for their bills in "real money," most Americans today are well attuned to European sensibilities. A customer-service official at a Stockholm Nordiska Kompaniet department store says mildly: "We no longer see so many 85-year-old teen-agers with rhinestones on their eyeglasses...
Whether in England, California, Colorado Springs, Newport, Wisconsin or Bermuda, the Crimson's finest are "spanning the globe." as they say on ABC's "Wide World of Sports" And in case the network doesn't catch all of Harvard-related action, below is a necessarily incomplete account of who's where, when, and what to expect...
Varsity squash coach Dave Fish has been selected to head the first ever National Junior Squash team, which will compete in Bermuda the week of July 8-15 Included on the team is Kevin Jernigan, brother of Harvard's top racquet man, Kentor., and an incoming freshman
...bagged parking meters reserve entire street-lengths for the guests of honor and their families, aviating the Square's already skin-tight parking situation. The guests pulled up in Audis and Rabbits and taxis, cocktail glasses in hand, wearing anything from t-shirts and bermuda shorts to Calvin Klein pastel-striped sweaters to a full suit and tie. Their arms outstretched in the firm handshake mode they ran into everyone they expected or didn't expect in the first few moments and introduced them to glowing if harried wives and reticent if recalcitrant offspring...
...doesn't wear Bermuda shorts or sunglasses, but he is the stereotype American tourist. He ogles the natives as though they were the foreigners. Not knowing the language, he complains that no one speaks "American." He is given to such asides as "I wonder who's buried in Ming's Tomb...