Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carl Rizzo '75, a club member, said last night that a high school gym coach at the Cape called him recently to ask about Harvard's gymnastics program. The coach had a senior gymnast who was interested in Ivy League competition...
...EUROPEAN influence in Gomes's speech is not a souvenir from studies abroad. It was picked up from his father, a fisherman from the Cape Verdi islands who came to the United States at the turn of the century and married the daughter of a black family that had escaped to the north via the Underground Railway just before the Civil War. Gomes's parents settled in Plymouth--only minutes from the Rock--and raised their children amid the history and the religion of the old Pilgrim landing...
Those are but a sample of the disasters that have struck a fleet of 17 boats competing in the year's most grueling sporting event-the first round-the-world sailing race. Since they tacked out from Portsmouth, England, last September, the competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some...
...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
...KEVIN M. CAPE...