Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Royal Yacht Squadron in 1851 under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia is squaring off with the 1974 U.S. defender, Courageous, skippered by Turner- the Peck's Bad of Boy of yachting-in the waters off Newport...
What left Watson holding the bag was a series of bizarre political twists. After Watson announced his retirement last fall, the University's search committee interviewed over 100 applicants for the post and apparently settled on Robert Peck, athletic director and chairman of the Physical Education Department at Williams College. But the impending choice of Peck, which someone in the department apparently leaked to The Boston Globe, touched off a furor among both students--who resented the fact that there were no undergraduate representatives on the search committee--and old alumni, who would rather see McGovern in the White House...
...program of athletic facilities, for the job. A group of alumni were a bit more direct, expressing their displeasure at the impending nomination to top administration officials. The athletes had the support of many students and many of the alumni had the support of big checkbooks, so Peck withdrew from contention rather than see himself fed to the lions publicly. President Bok then dissolved the search committee, took personal responsibility for the selection and asked Watson to stay on another semester until he could find a new director...
...disposal of Peck and Pittenger still didn't settle the question: It simply narrowed the field a bit. Supposedly, the alumni have won out in their fight to insure that no "outsider" will find his way into 60 Boylston St. Watson, in fact, said last week he has "been assured that the next athletic director will either be a Harvard College graduate or someone from 'the inside.'" Bok, though, as the man who will make the choice and presumably the one who would do the reassuring, will say nothing other than that he will be making an announcement...
That announcement should put an end to the department's three-ring circus, at least for now. It will certainly calm the alumni; after last spring's debacle, Bok is hardly likely to appoint anyone as unsettling to the old-timers as Peck. As a matter of fact, Pittenger's departure makes Reardon the logical choice. Popular with students, a long-time athletic recruiter and the head fund-raiser for the new athletic complex, he gets along with the athletes and, more importantly, the money that keeps the department in business. But predictably, neither Reardon nor Bok will say anything...