Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founding fathers said that they presented their case 'with a decent respect for the opinion of mankind.' That did not mean that they were entering into a sort of global popularity contest. Far from it. They knew what they believed-and to their unshakable beliefs they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. But they did want as many people as possible everywhere to know what they were doing and why. Not only then, but down through the centuries. Today we think in our devotion to liberty under law we have something useful...
Last week 1,000 college-age students filed into Columbia University's McMillin Theater to watch Columbia's defending champions battle it out with teams from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke and Barnard for the Second Annual Ivy League-Seven Sisters Trivia Contest-the closest thing to a world series that the game has spawned. On hand to officiate were Trivia's inventors, former Columbia Students Dan Carlinsky and Edwin Goodgold, whose two books on the subject, published by Dell, have sold 450,000 copies in the past year...
...flour sacks for trash, and ran a regular school program on beautification with films and 15-minute lectures. San Antonio Mayor Walter W. McAllister called his city's recognition "very gratifying but no real surprise." Indeed not. In the 19 years that San Antonio has been entering the contest, the city has won 18 awards for cleanliness, including a previous grand prize...
...Peanuts, had ears for wings, rear paws for tail assembly; since it was unflyable, it was suspended from a Kleenex parachute. Australia was represented by a long, beak-nosed glider. "It will probably fly upside down in the Northern Hemisphere," predicted the Qantas executive who sent it to the contest. The only direction it flew on three successive flights was straight down under...
...contest was inspired, says Publisher Piel, by hopes of a design breakthrough applicable to supersonic transport. According to the judges, none appeared. Said Princeton Professor David C. Hazen: "We've seen nothing we haven't seen before." Publisher Piel was not discouraged. He sticks with his original postulate that "there is, right now, flying down some hallway or out of some movie-house balcony in Brooklyn, the aircraft that will make the SST 30 years obsolete." But Piel's seven-year-old daughter Nelle remained unconvinced. Said she: "I think it's silly...