Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last encounter to Princeton, tied with Dartmouth for the League lead. On paper the varsity has a better record than Yale, but with the Crimson's poor rebounding record for the season, and the waning of its defenses in the Dartmouth game, the game with Yale should be a close one indeed. HOCKEY W L Dartmouth 2 0 Yale 2 0 Harvard 1 0 Brown 1 0 Princeton 0 2 Cornell...
...Close Reason. Eisenhower was by no means content to stop with a balanced budget. As the kickoff to a series of specific moves, he asked Congress to revise the Full Employment Act of 1946 so as to reduce pressures for inflationary measures. With that proposal, in perhaps the most closely reasoned of all his economic reports, the President of the U.S. set forth the standards for an era of prudent affluence: "To make reasonable price stability an explicit goal of federal economic policy, coordinate with the goals of maximum production, employment, and purchasing power...
...presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira remarked: "I don't think he is very happy about...
...rebels knew that they were gaining, but they did not realize that victory was so close at hand. On Christmas Eve a priest climbed the hills to report to Castro that General Eulogio Cantillo, commander of Moncada Barracks, would like to have a chat. Castro celebrated by coming down to the family farm at Mayari, his first visit in four years. "Oh, what a party we had that night!" says his mother. "His soldiers were all over the place, and he bought $1,000 worth of beef to feed the people from all around...
...since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...