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...boys from Ithaca are big. Their starting six consists of center Steve Cram (6-7), Bob McCready (6-5), Marv Van Leeuwen(6-5), Bob Berube (6-3), Garry Munson (6-5), and Ray Ratkowaki (6-0), Cornell has no super-star; its high scorer is McCready with a mere 13.2 average, but all of their players can provide some scoring punch...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Basketball Team Faces First Ivy League Foes | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...relief was short-lived: Johnson was nominated for the vice-presidency. Fortified with a cram course in public speaking, Lady Bird set off on a whirlwind campaign tour, made scores of appearances, got a modest share of the credit when Texas went Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The New First Lady | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...date and ill-equipped, even for treating genuine accident cases. Many are understaffed; often enough the intern on duty is a foreign-born doctor whose language difficulties become almost insurmountable for the patient or his overwrought family. And the emergency room's new popularity is likely to cram it with cases of infectious disease-which is hardly to be desired for the accident victim brought in with an open wound. It is an unhappy situation for patients, doctors and hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hospitals: Boom in Emergency Rooms | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

That Day, written and directed by Timothy Mayer '66, is a fine poem but a bad play in its present form. Mayer's verse is always economical and occasionally strong. Too often, though, it is overly economical: Mayer sometimes tries to cram so many levels of meaning into a single line that none of them comes through when the line is spoken, however clear it may be as written verse. There is practically no action in the play, and hardly any conversation to replace it. Instead, the play is a string of long speeches virtually unbroken by interludes of dialogue...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 'That Day': Dante in a Workshop | 7/16/1963 | See Source »

...flared between "pro-treaty" Irishmen and De Valera's followers, who cried that Ireland could not accept partition. Lemass, an officer on De Valera's staff, was captured by the other side and imprisoned for a year. In jail he continued his war-shattered education with a cram course in economics, politics and Irish revolutionary writings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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