Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only problem the team faced after that was deciding which records to break in each meet. Against Brown, Baker ran the mile in 4:21.1, a new freshman mark. The next night, in the Knights of Columbus meet, he lowered his time to 4:17.7. In the same meet, the two-mile relay team of William Burns, Richard Langenbach, Dave McKelvey, and Robert Stempson set another freshman record with a 7:49.4 timing. Against Dartmouth, Huvelle ran the 600 in 1:11.9, breaking the University record of 1:12.0 held jointly by Bill Anderson, Jim Cairns, and Pat Liles...
...confession gives the church a specific social mission, committing it to integration, defending interracial marriage, and calling for the preservation of peace and the abolition of poverty. The document is called the Confession of 1967 because even if it is adopted by the 177th annual general assembly in Columbus next May, it will have to be approved by two subsequent assemblies and ratified by two-thirds of the 193 presbyteries...
...society reporting blends a proper background with the perspective of the competent reporter. Born of strong-willed and well-to-do parents-her mother, who served in the U.S. Legation in Switzerland, was the first woman to be admitted to the U.S. Foreign Service-Charlotte grew up in Columbus, Ohio, talked her way into summer assignments for the Citizen (now the Citizen-Journal) while still at Vassar. "She had the disposition of a thoroughbred-overtrained, overbred and tense," recalls a colleague still on the paper. "She had a pride in being able to cope. She was against copelessness...
Most of Rain's inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide...
...keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley. Of course, evrabody knows where The Valley is. Lies somewhere between lofty Faulkner country and the Foote hills...