Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...
...Students for Nixon group plans to bring Vice-President Nixon to the University next fall and hopes to spearhead a national Students-for-Nixon movement. The Parsons faction has been in close correspondence with Jerry A. Coons, president of the Trojan Young Republican Club of the University of Southern California, about sale of Nixon buttons for campaign funds...
With a man of the calibre of last year's varsity captain Dale Junta paying in the number one position, Freshman tennis coach Corey Wynn is already looking forward to a pleasant season. Jarum Piatigorsky, a high ranking competitor from California junior tournaments, will frustrate opponents throughout the spring with one of the best serves to appear on a Freshman team in recent years...
...Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their wake...
Bigger & Better. Unlike Washington, California attracts few experienced rowers, and Ebright must build his men from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright...