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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parker then took the high hurdles, equaling the meet record with a time of 14.8, and Oxford's Kevin Gilligan won the two-mile in 8:57, another series mark. Finishing second in the two-mile, the Crimson's Dyke Benjamin chopped a half second off his University record with a 9:08.0 performance...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Touring Harvard-Yale Track Team Takes Oxford-Cambridge Classic | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

Died. S. Ralph Lazrus, 61, founder (1919), with his brothers Benjamin and Oscar, of Benrus Watch Co., one of the largest U.S. importers of Swiss watches; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Difficult Hero | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...BENJAMIN KREITMAN Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Royal Water in Brooklyn | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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