Word: halley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, Wilson Halley, Peter Farrow, and Mark Patek, co-skippering in the "B" division, fouled out in four of the seven races. Tim Prince, sailing in the "A" division didn't fare well either, finishing fifth...
...party's best years were the early fifties. In 1951 the Liberals did the impossible: their own candidate, Rudolph Halley, beat a Democrat and a Republican for president of the New York City Council. Halley got 657,000 votes; James A. Hagerty, then a reporter for The New York Times, called the Liberals "the number one party in New York City." A year later Prof. George S. Counts of Teachers College, Columbia, ran for U.S. Senate on the Liberal ticket and got 461,000 votes...
...Coast Guard's tendency toward narrow victories should be offset by Harvard's depth, which is of great importance in team racing. Dave Stookey, Tim Prince, Dave Gants, and Wilson Halley-each with at least two years of intercollegiate racing experience--will be skippering for Harvard...
Racing a triangular course in a field of six teams, Harvard Yacht Club skippers Dave Stookey, Dave Gantz, Tim Prince, and Wilson Halley first lost to Dartmouth on a protest. Both teams then fell to the Coast Guard Academy and romped over Bowdoin and Rhode Island School of Design. But the Indians' advantage disappeared when they succumbed to Williams, also on a protest...
...other reminiscences, while not as good as Miss Halley's story, have their own particular and considerable virtues. Robert Hellman's In the Country is another tale which contrasts the old country (in this case Russia) with the new. The New York couples on a country hillside listen patiently while Boris, a slightly eccentric friend, tells of an odd experience his father had in Russia. The story is obviously an important one both for Boris and for his dead father, and the American friends listen with kind patience, but with no comprehension...