Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French and German history in the original-Stratton is humanist as well as scientist. Under President (1930-48) Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T. toward real scientific eminence, Stratton taught electrical engineering and physics, won wide respect for his wartime radar research and later for his administrative abilities in organizing the institute's Research Laboratory of Electronics. Under President (now Board Chairman) Killian, who made him right-hand...
...heavyweight varsity crew set a new course record Saturday, capping off the most successful day for Harvard crews on the Charles River in recent history. The Crimson swept all six races in the Compton and Biglin Cup regattas...
...Dartmouth, M.I.T. and B.U., the heavyweight varsity rowed the mile-and-three-quarters course in 8:45 flat, shaving five-tenths of a second off the previous record set by Cornell in 1952. This was the second year in a row the Crimson set a record in winning the Compton Cup, having broken the old mark on Lake Carnegie last year...
Summary of Compton Cup Regatta. Varsity: Harvard, 8:45; Princeton, 8:53.2; Dartmouth, 8:58.6; M.I.T., 9:09.3; B.U., 9:18.6. Winning margin, 2 lengths. Junior Varsity: Harvard, 9:30.6; Dartmouth, 9:40.7; Princeton, 9:45.1; M.I.T., 9:53.5. Winning margin, 2 1/2 lengths. Freshman: Harvard, 9:48; Princeton, 9:52.7; Dartmouth, 10:07.8; M.I.T., 10:16.2; B.U., 10:23. Winning margin, 1 1/4 lengths...