Word: 106th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring was a little chilly this year for Harry Parker, coach of the Harvard varsity crew: with only two men back from last year's heavyweight eight that swept five straight college races, the Crimson's 106th rowing season figured to be, well, crimson. Imagine Parker's surprise when his young (five sophomores, two juniors) crew went through its first three races undefeated, then won the Eastern Sprint championships-defeating Archrival Yale twice, once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. Imagine Yale's surprise. "They really aren't that good," insisted Bulldog Oarsman...
...strongest statements on equality as a command of the Gospels are now coming from conservative, mostly white, Southern religious bodies, which until lately reflected enduring cultural prejudices against the Negro. The newest and most forceful is from the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., which last week concluded its 106th General Assembly at Montreal...
...popular captain scored his 106th Harvard point at New Haven leaving him second only to Bob Cleary (195) in Crimson history. Ike Ikauniks is also making a run on Harvard's ten all-time leading scorers. "Romy," as the Yale public address announcer called him, got four points Saturday to leave him with a three-year total of 82, just two shy of the current tenth best...
Celebrating his 106th birthday in Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, grand old man of Presbyterian missions, founder of the Protestant ecumenical movement, greeted his admirers with a twinkle and recalled a previous birthday at a school in West Brookfield, Mass. "One hundred years ago today," he said, "I faced an audience for the first time. Then, as now, I said...
...four "paddles." The 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank kept listening. On June 26, Pioneer V sent a last six-minute message, bravely reporting the cosmic conditions around it. At that moment it was 22,462,740 miles from earth. Then the 94.8-lb. probe, on the 106th day of its journey, was swallowed forever by space...