Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several streaks are on the line tonight. Harvard has an eleven game winning streak over the last two years. They haven't been defeated at Watson Rink since December, 1961, when Clarkson turned the trick. They've beaten Bowdoin three times without a loss in their brief series. Tonight at ten you can probably add one to each of these figures...
...rich humor of the text. The finest comic moments, however belonged to Michael Solomon, who as the judge of supernatural events is almost worth the price of the ticket. His timing is keen, his voice wonderfully flexible, and his facial expressions consistently alive and amusing. John Weiner has a brief but superbly played part...
...brief interview with a lone reporter, Governor Connally talked mostly of the moments when bullets flew, but he also had some rambling remarks about one of his closest friends-the new President...
Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet "honeydew" secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief catalogue of insect husbandry Louisiana State University's Gary Ross has watched Mexican carpenter ants (Camponotus abominalis) protect caterpillars against their natural enemies and live on the juices that the caterpillars excrete. Though both parties benefit from the odd relationship, nature ensures that it is always brief: by the time they are 83 days old, the caterpillar cattle sprout orange-rimmed wings and fly away...
...never got the chance. And because he did not, perhaps it was John Kennedy who, in that memorable inaugural address, best pronounced the historian's verdict of his own brief time in the presidency: "All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin...