Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleges, which award scholarships solely on the basis of economic need--not athletic ability--the 1.600 rule for athletic scholarships is understandably incompatible. Moreover, the admissions and financial aid offices at Harvard and the other Ivy schools function independently from the athletic departments and outside the jurisdiction of the NCAA...
...nearest rival, General Dynamics. In the current year, Lockheed is certain to stay at the top of the list of suppliers, having already won two major prizes: a $1.3 billion Air Force contract to build the giant C-5A transport, the world's largest plane, and a development award likely to grow to another $1 billion for the Army's so-called Advanced Aerial Fire Support System, a combat plane combining a helicopter's lift with half the speed of a jet airliner. Aerospace has long since supplanted munitions and ordnance makers as the Pentagon...
...trade that though jets are immensely profitable to the airlines, Boeing alone among the planemakers has so far profited from building jets for commercial use. Boeing has not won a major military contract since 1958, suffered major setbacks by not capturing either the TFX or C-5A award. The company, however, is battling Lockheed for the Government contract to build a supersonic transport; a win would make up for a lot of lost business...
...lobby of WBZ's studio on Soldiers Field Road looks like a doctor's waiting room. The recessed lighting shines dimly on glass-framed award certificates, hung on the walls like diplomas. The silence is emphasized by the drone of voices from the massive color TV set, always on and tuned to WBZ-TV, and is broken occasionally by a buzz from the switchboard behind a high counter, followed by the receptionist's greeting, "WBZ, Group W." Instead of patients, middle-aged promotion men holding bundles of paper-jacketed 15's sit talking of the publicity...
...cities and not being able to play anywhere, and quickly announced they would honor the directives of the Atlanta courts. It may not be so simple. If they lose in Wisconsin, the Braves and the rest of the National League would be vulnerable to a substantial damage award that might then be enforced by courts in other National League states. The courts of at least one of those states can surely be counted on to give its fellow state a hand. The U.S. Supreme Court may finally have to provide a solution, but by that time, even a seven-game...