Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such success on the boards means little compared to outdoor competition. But it does mean that Tony is in shape for his big effort. And it taught him that this summer, as he tries to play his way into the pros, one of his biggest problems will be Intercollegiate Champion Richardson, a Tulane senior (studying for the law) who puts in so much time studying when he could be playing tennis that he has won himself a Rhodes scholarship...
Before this year his teams in both indoor and outdoor seasons had never been beaten. But this year's team did not match the quality of his previous two and was plagued by inexperience and injury. In all, it lost three meets, two to prep schools on bad breaks, while winning its other three meets for a .500 season percentage...
Gilt-Edged Lilies. For amateur theatricals (often by Philadelphia's socialite Savoyards), Du Pont built an outdoor theater with 62-ft. stage, arboreal wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...
...statues, ski jumping meets, and Queens of Snows, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival after sunset on Saturday evening takes on a remarkable resemblance to any other big Ivy League weekend at any other season of the year. With skis and skates forgotten, crstwhile outdoor types flock to the warm fraternity houses and their well-stocked bars. And the Dartmouth man, looking uncertainly at all the Harvard and Yale men around him, makes his annual concession to conventionality: he puts on a coat...
Losing its first meet, indoor or outdoor, in the last three years, the track squad was upset by Exeter, 54-36. Dave Gately of the winners piled up 18 points, the margin of victory...