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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandeis coach K. C. Jones--the former Celtic great--got a few standout individual efforts, but did not have the depth to stay with Harvard. Steve Katzman, a senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., embarrassed Dover on defense in the second half, scoring 23 of his 25 points, mostly on medium-range jumpers...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Crimson Tops Brandeis In Hoop Opener, 92-78 | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

...skillfully that, when he was finally caught, CIA Director Allen Dulles wistfully observed: "I wish we had three or four like him inside Moscow right now." Abel kept in constant touch with the Kremlin from a studio whose windows, bristling with short wave radio antennas, directly faced the Brooklyn headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Advice to Young Spies | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Uncertain Futures. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver, the first Negro to serve in the Cabinet, accepted appointment as president of Bernard M. Baruch College, a separate college of the City University of New York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Exodus Begins | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...York Giants' own cast of characters is as varied as Author Asinof's fans; the list reads like a city ward-heeler's notion of the perfect political ticket. The coach is a Brooklyn Jew. The quarterback is a WASP-a Pentecostal minister's son from the Deep South. And the star pass receiver is a Negro. But whatever their differences, the Giants have one thing in common: an unpredictable flair for the dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Winner Take All | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Charley Goldman, 81, rugged little (5 ft. 1 in.. 115 Ibs.) prizefight trainer who, in half a century, schooled hundreds of boxers, including Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers and Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket and taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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