Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Stock Exchange Wednesday closings. The transition from elbow bending to shooting marbles was a natural. While it is true that we failed to appear at the championship this year, we had good reason: the application form we requested last October arrived April 2-just two days before the contest. In any event, unless we lose our marbles, we will be there next year...
Jumpy and Pugnacious. In the end, Nixon chose a course between backing down by discontinuing the flights permanently, thus conceding the field to the North Koreans, and plunging into a military contest that the U.S. might not be willing to sustain. He announced that the flights would resume. "They will be protected," he pledged. While he refused to divulge details, it later appeared that fighter plane cover would be made available if needed-either from land bases in South Korea or from a naval task force that was being assembled, which will include several aircraft carriers...
Joel S. Perwin '70 placed second in the contest for best speaker, 607-603; his teammate, Richard P. Lewis '72, was fourth. Arguing the affirmative side in the final round, the pair defeated the University of Houston, 5-2. Houston was the pre-tournament favorite...
...contest was held Saturday indoors at the Palmer-Dixon courts, and the Ephmen, who will not have indoor tennis courts until next Septembers, never quite adjusted...
...three-way contest last week the M.I.T. varsity beat the Yale varsity by half a length, while Dartmouth trailed behind. Harvard enjoyed rather easy rowing last week, defeating Columbia's crews by about five lengths in each race...