Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also took in hand Johnson's own powerful .300 Magnum rifle with a telescopic sight and brought down a ten-point buck deer, at 309 paces, with a bullet right through the heart. Exulted Democrat Johnson: "The best deer killed in this part of the country this season!" Later, spic and span except for a spot of blood on his khaki pants, Hunter Kefauver met newsmen with his feat in his mouth, neatly tied the story in with his White House yearnings: "If I get down and start seeking [the presidential nomination], I hope I have that same sort...
...SHAPE (and "prototype" of Colonel Cantwell, hero of Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees), is slated to be board chairman of Colt's Manufacturing Co., which was taken over last week by Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry Regiment, earned a jacketful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. ¶ Walter...
...Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Libraries, commented "This is just another scheme to spend the University dollar on the undergraduate," but he allowed the CRIMSON to set up an exhibition (see right) on the bottom level which illustrates the benefits available under the new plan for photographic education...
...situation screamed for a fullback power play. But while Gianelly's substitute, Dick Oehmler, is dextrous, he weighs only 160 pounds, and his attempt to buck the stubborn Yale line was repulsed...
Classroom and office space is a somewhat less serious problem, but expansion would be necessary if the University grew even a little. "If someone asked me today for an office, I'd be at ends to help him," reports Buck, who also heads a faculty committee concerned with space allocation. One of the recently acquired New Haven school buildings may very probably be used to solve some of these needs, acording to C. H. Sanford, University Business Manager...