Word: gales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boat, elevated this week from the third varsity position, rowed to a five-length victory in 6:45, at the height of the gale...
After three futile attempts to find Chichester, the group gave it one last try. They could not have picked a worse day. They flew through a driving rainstorm and gale winds; the ceiling was 600 feet. But 20 miles south of the Cape, they finally spotted Chichester, making about eight knots under a jib that looked the size of a bath towel. Huddled under the storm cover in the cockpit, Chichester waved. Fuenzalida made six passes at 60 feet. Luton was so excited that he recorded a complete commentary before he noticed that he had no tape in his recorder...
...Harvard, Vern Countryman and several other Law School professors asked the University to take all possible legal steps to keep the lists from falling into HUAC's hands. Gilbert Gale '69, head of an ad hoc committee to abolish HUAC, wrote a letter to President Pusey asking him to make a public statement on the University's policy toward a possible subpoena...
...March 6 response to Gale's letter, Pusey said that the University would not commit itself to non-compliance with a HUAC subpoena before such a subpoena was actually served. While the Young Republicans commended Pusey for his handling of the matter, other individuals and organizations were not so pleased. The Harvard Undergraduate Council, for example, urged the Corporation to reconsider Pusey's decision...
...Harvard refuses to comply with a HUAC subpoena, the University may be taken to court and charged with contempt of Congress. In his letter to Gale, Pusey suggested that this was not possible. "The College dean's office," Pusey wrote, "does not require membership lists of political organizations, so, of course, we would not be able to give this information even if requested to do so." This statement, however, is not wholly correct. Harvard keeps a record of the officers of all student organizations, and reserves the right of access to membership lists of political organizations, though this right...