Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia's attempts to expand its athletic plant have been as disheartening as the Lions' results in team competition. The latest disaster in New York was the collapse of a bubble-type facility, similar to Harvard...
...League champion Princeton walked away with the team title, it first in the 46-year history of the event. Navy, whose victory hopes were crushed by a last-minute sabre loss to Army, has to settle for a second-place tie with N.Y.U. Penn, Columbia, City College of New York, and Cornell also finished ahead of the Crimson...
...dourly: "I hardly even know the woman." He calls such chitchat "degrading" and again blames it on the star system resulting from "one man or two men appearing every day in the role of all-wise, all-knowing journalistic supermen. It is absurd." So absurd, he said in a Columbia University lecture honoring Elmer Davis, "that it may be that Huntley and Cronkite and I and a few others are the last of a type." That was in 1966. With the Huntley-Brinkley Report as profitable as it is, he now fears that TV anchormen are as indestructible as federal...
Died. Fairleigh Dickinson III, 19, Columbia University freshman and an heir to the family's surgical-equipment fortunes, which enabled the Dickinsons to found and build New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University; of a reported overdose of an opium derivative and LSD; in a friend's dormitory room on the school's Manhattan campus...
...Crimson has done well in the Ivy League this winter, losing only to Columbia and Penn. Harvard handed Princeton its only loss of the season, dropping the Tigers into a tie for first with Penn. Harvard and Columbia tied for second place, the Crimson's highest finish ever...