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...lead in the blink of an eye when Harvard starter Rob Alevizos lost his concentration in the second inning, walking three straight batters before serving up a juicy outside fastball to weak-hitting second baseman Chuck Mitchell. Mitchell launched an arching parabola to deep right field that a sympathetic gust of wind carried over the fence for a home run and an instant four-run lead...
...number-one-man Mike Verrall took second place with an 81, while veteran Crimson linksters Carroll Lowenstein and Chip Raffi fired 82 and 83, respectively. Lowenstein was robbed of a good round on the 13th when a 50-mile an-hour gust knocked his tee shot out of bounds...
...avant-garde of the litigant spirit that is most unsettling. If one can blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned...
Wallenda had no sooner started than a gust of wind made the cable vibrate. Wallenda stopped, steadied himself. A hush fell over the crowd...
Wallenda started to crouch. A gust of wind suddenly jarred him. Then, as the horrified crowd watched, he started to fall, very slowly at first. He reached out for the cable with one hand, but he was still holding the balancing bar and could not get a grip on the cable. Down he went, still holding onto the pole. Ten stories below, he landed on the roof of a taxi and bounced off onto the sidewalk. At the hospital, he was pronounced dead of massive internal injuries...