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Even so, it is no weekend hacker's jaunt. Though McKinley does not pose the classic technical challenges of the great Himalayan and Andean peaks, it is nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
...come looking, if indeed such a place is to be found enclosed, and taken home as a souvenir at any time of year. And they probably wonder -- "summies" and Harvard-Radcliffe both--as the heat wave enters its eighth day, draining whatever energy was left for that afternoon jaunt to the Cape, if the Cambridge summer-time mystique was all that it promised to be in the chill of early May. Don't ask them then. Ask about it on some November afternoon, of better yet in the middle of January. Ask what summer school is like, or about...
...number three doubles, Appleby teamed with Jose Gonzalez to defeat St. Peter and Smith, 6-1, 6-4. Gonzalez, a tennis and squash powerhouse, had missed the Southern trip because of an ankle injury sustained on a skiing jaunt. And he still can't maneuver his 6-2, 210-pound frame well enough to play singles...
...always bite off more than we can chew." says Munro about the annual spring training jaunt. "We'll be playing four games in four days against teams that are six weeks ahead of us weather wise and get their pick of the top Long Island and Maryland boys...
...hottest. The Gallup poll taken two weeks earlier found Kennedy still ahead by nine points. That Kennedy's standing has sagged is evident, although the damage can undoubtedly be repaired long before the Senator has to test himself again at the polls. Meanwhile, trips like the European jaunt could only help the cause of Kennedysmo and give Bobby added credentials the next time he chooses to speak out on foreign policy -which will be soon...