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...giant slalom race was sanctioned by the United States Ski Association and was included on the international schedule. Harvard Coach Dick Friedman called Watson's victory "the biggest ski race that anyone at Harvard has ever...
Harvard's Alpine performance at Middlebury was outstanding. In the slalom. Which Friedman called "the best single event in Harvard's history," Crimson skiers captured four out of the top ten places. Willy Draper led the Harvard contingent, placing second behind Rick Launsbury of Dartmouth by one-tenth of a second. Mike Cock and Peter and Larry Carter--the other Harvard racers--placed sixth, seventh, and tenth respectively...
Entering the final event at Middlebury, the 60-meter ski jump, Harvard stood third in the team standings after superlative Alpine performances. But Mitchell's injury had a big psychological effect on Harvard's other jumpers. "Our guys were just trying to live through the experience," Friedman said. Their sub-par performance dropped Harvard to sixth place. Perennial champion Dartmouth edged Middlebury to capture the team title...
Draper's win was the first in college competition. An ecstatic Dick Friedman, Harvard's coach, described the feat as "Harvard's greatest skiing performance of the year...
Other Galaxies. Foreknowledge of Japanese intentions helped the U.S. in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, undoubtedly gaining crucial time for the U.S. to prepare its final blows. But the personal toll on Friedman was tremendous: "The despair of the long weeks when the problem seemed insoluble, the repeated dashings of uplifted hopes, the tension and the frustration and the urgency and the secrecy all converged and hammered furiously upon his skull." He collapsed, but three months after his breakdown, Friedman returned to work, although in a less demanding area. Today, at 76, he lives in Washington in retirement...