Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he brought his game to Harvard, he encountered trouble. Most Eastern colleges play on clay courts, and the only comparable composition at Harvard was the Palmer Dixon indoor courts which the squad used only in bad weather...
Harvard's young team was hampered by the poor weather conditions, including 20 to 25 knot winds. Robbie Doyle '71, Boyd Travsky '70, Jeff Storer '70, Joe Worth '71, and Parker Jayne '69 sailed for Harvard...
Some of the problems started with the hardships of early spring, of course. The team didn't play outdoors until the southern trip because the weather was prohibitive. The Crimson then made its trip. Losing four out of five to good teams who had been able to work outside would not have been reason for discouragement, but when half the team gets injured, that's reason. Three-quarters of the experienced defense was out of action, as were several other players. Kirby Wilcox and Pete Barber ended up sitting out the entire season. So Harvard was certainly not a lucky...
...crowded schedule and hasty traveling between locations brought unavoidable problems, but nothing was quite so disconcerting as the cold and rainy out-of-season weather that the travelers had to contend with. There were days when the models' clothes seemed doubly flimsy. As veterans of such assignments, Reporter Svedberg and Photographer Gigli had come prepared. Gigli handled his cameras while bundled up in a windbreaker; Andrea's working uniform was blue jeans, a heavy sweater and a ski jacket...
...passenger notable chiefly for having made 22 previous crossings. Desperately, they wove vignettes from such unpromising material as the pet white mouse in a first-class stateroom, the ship's minor collision with a whale, and a vicar selling oak trees to reforest Sherwood Forest. With the weather still too cold to swim or sun, the passengers danced, drank, and rested. The most popular place on the ship was the cinema, which was packed to capacity for both afternoon and evening showings of first-run films...