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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticized Dr. Oppenheimer on the grounds that he was an example of irresponsibility on the part of a prominent intellectual, and that his appointment as William James lecturer could only champion those groups which excuse and abet this kind of irresponsibility. The Pound controversy and Kamin-Furry fiasco are excellent illustrations of this. I do not in any way deny Dr. Oppenheimer's right to speak. I criticize his appointment as William James lecturer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Readers Criticize 'Veritas' Committee | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Straus South, champion of basketball, the only "major sport," and of hockey and touch football, leads in the race for the intramural championship with 5301/2 points. Thayer Middle, which has won the cross-country, boxing, and fencing championships, is current runner-up with 454 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straus South Holds Firm Lead In Freshman Intramural Series | 4/11/1957 | See Source »

Bullitt, at present an Associate of Adams House, was a member of Dunster House as an undergraduate. While in college, he won the Bowdoin Prize and the Detur, as well as being Massachusetts State and New England amateur boxing champion...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Bullitt Appointed Master Of Proposed 8th House | 4/9/1957 | See Source »

...Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...interview drivers through a hole in the fence. "They hate me out there," she says frankly, "and I hate them." But she has less trouble than many of her male co-workers in knocking down the reserve of reticent athletes. A recent example: Toni Sailer, Austria's world champion skier. "All accounts say he can't speak English very well," she grins. "I talked with him, shot pool with him, had dinner with him. His English is all right. He's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tomboy with a Typewriter | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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