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...compliance with the dictates of tradition, the Harvard Rugby Club is joining the rest of Harvard in Bermuda this year, and they too are going there for sun and games. Unfortunately, Bermuda will not be restful, but will involve a solid week of "spring training" which Harvard teams have never been able to negotiate in the local dust bowl known as Briggs Cage...
Massachusetts' Barbara ("Toni") Welch Gibbons Peabody, 40, got her political schooling from her father, Morris A. Gibbons, who has been a member of Bermuda's colonial parliament for 40 years. Says "Chub" Peabody's cousin, Rosemary de Suze: "Toni is a marvelous cook, she is a marvelous seamstress, a marvelous mother and a marvelous wife. She will tackle anything and do it well." Sniffs a Boston society editor: "Chub would never have made it without her." He met Toni early in 1944, when he was stationed at a submarine base in Bermuda. Toni, a green-eyed blonde...
Time was when college boys went home for the holidays; these days, more and more are taking off with or without their girls and fraternity brothers for a bit of resorting on the cheap. Spring vacation, for instance, is Fort Lauderdale time (or Malibu, or Bermuda), where you can throw your sleeping bag on the beach and live on hamburgers and beer. From Christmas to New Year's, it may well be a ski resort, where you can bed down in a bunkhouse and live on hamburgers and beer...
...From Bermuda to Barbados and back again to Boca Raton, ladies will wrap pullovers about them to hide the suit that never got wet or to match the short shorts (Bermudas are now for bicycling only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored...
...even close," wrote Wiser, "would be United, which has about a fourth of the business." Wiser's opinion is not binding on the CAB. The board can vote to overrule its examiners (and has on 18 of their last 47 recommendations). But because international routes are involved (Mexico, Bermuda, Puerto Rico), final say in the Eastern-American merger rests not with the CAB but with the White House. In the end, the decision will turn on whether President Kennedy thinks it is more important to keep the airline industry hotly competitive or to keep it solvent...