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...girls chosen include Deborah H. of Whitman Hall and Williams- History and Literature; Judith H. of Briggs Hall and Worcester, Helen H. Arnold, of Cabot Hall Oak Ridge, Tenn., Mathematics; B. DuBois, of Gilman House and Conn., History and Literature. Also elected were Ann Gale, of Cabot and Glencoe, III., Biochemistry; S. Garelick, of Cambridge, History Literature; Judith L. Goldstein, of Center, Social Relations; Janet Martin of Holmes Hall and N.Y., History and Literature; C. Merton, of Cambridge and on-Hudson, N.Y., Social Relations; Patricia N. Wagar, of Holmes Hall Madison, N.J., History; and Susan Warram, of Boston, American History...
CHRISTOPHER GALE...
...been bought at great price, the life of Britain's greatest hero. But only the naval garrison and a few Britons beleaguered in the shadow of Gibraltar's rock knew what had happened off Cape Trafalgar that October day in 1805. A howling westerly gale bedeviled Cuthbert Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Blue, who had succeeded to command of the victorious British fleet, and his ships were fighting for their lives, trying to claw off a lee shore. Five days whistled through the rigging before Collingwood could dispatch the tidings on which the world hung...
...birds had hitched a free passage on cattle boats to South America. Now the prevailing theory is that sometime around the turn of the century-when they were first sighted in the Guianas-a single flock of the birds, migrating from Senegal northward, was trapped in an easterly gale, blown off course clear across the Atlantic to the South American coast. The few hardy survivors nested, reproduced and moved north to the U.S. about 1941 in ever increasing numbers...
Before the start of last week's race. Crewman Bunny Rigg, burly editor of the Skipper magazine, cracked slyly: "Don't bet against us." Few did. When the winds freshened to gale strength on the fifth day out, other boats were plagued with seasickness. But Finisterre's shipshape crew kept every possible inch of sail flying, whipped past far bigger boats laboring under storm rigs. "That blow came through like a buzz saw," said Mitchell later. "The boat was knifing out of the water and porpoising. It was wet below, but we had our hot meals...