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...best of times in Harvard Yard this summer, nor the worst, But for one memorable evening, it was certainly the wettest...
...wettest, most frustrating Wimbledons in memory. "Swimbledon," one London paper called it. A cartoonist depicted an umpire, safe in his chair, directing a lifeboat across a submerged Centre Court: "Miss Navratilova went down just about there!" Men's Finalist John McEnroe asked plaintively: "I wonder when it's going to snow...
Lovers of Burgundy can put most of the blame for this year's price panic on the vagaries of the weather. The summer, among the coldest and wettest in memory, was a cruel one for the Pinot grapes of the Côte d'Or, the narrow Burgundy slope that produces some of the world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks...
...number of Europeans on the road, on the rails or in the air this summer has reached a record 75 million, triple the level of 15 years ago. Largely because much of Europe was beset by the wettest and coldest July in a decade -the worst in France in 90 years-the hordes have been moving south to the Mediterranean in greater numbers and later in the summer than ever before...
...best victory I can ever remember," captain Skip Kistner said after returning last night. "It was the wettest course I've ever seen. There was no roll on the drives, the wind was howling, and everybody was losing a lot of balls because they were sinking into the course and disappearing...