Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With less than an hour before her plane departed, another lucky North Yard resident won a lottery for a trip to New York for the weekend. Andrea J. Fraser '89 of Hollis Hall was wisked away to pack and fly to the Big Apple after the trip was turned down by one winner and missed by another who is visiting Africa...
...winning boat was Australia II, the winged-keel victor at Newport. When the Doctor was in, the honors went to Australia III, a boat specifically designed for Fremantle's heavy weather by Ben Lexcen (who also designed Australia II). Skippered by Colin Beashel, Australia III finished ahead of the pack in three of the first six races, building such a lead that the championship was won even before it was over. For the seventh and final race, the Australian tacticians were content to assess their competitors from the comfort of dry dock...
...Dartmouth, Penn, and Princeton, this is a key Ivy weekend: any team that can engineer a sweep will move to the top of the pack; any team that is swept can start looking towards next season...
...loss dropped the cagers to 5-15 overall and 1-7 (last-place) in the Ivy League. The Lions--among the preseason favorites to snatch the Ivy title but currently in the middle of the pack--evened their marks to 10-10 overall and 4-4 in the league...
...base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just as they are supposed to do on mountain trips, and inside...