Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This victory, the Crimson's seventh against three ties, was the team's most impressive win to date. Going with a nearly untried lineup in impossible conditions, the varsity really came through. Chances seem good that the Ivy crown will once again go to the Crimson...
...been distinguished by Crimson disasters at the hands of Penn elevens. Last fall, for instance, in a game here, the varsity scored two goals in the first five minutes against the Quakers, only to be handed an eventual 2-2 tie that nearly killed all chances for the Ivy crown...
...five years of bloodshed in Algeria. Day after day, diplomats and intermediaries crisscrossed North Africa to exchange hints and glances in the feverish, delicate task of preparing bargaining positions. Rebel "President" Ferhat Abbas flew to Rabat to consult Morocco's King Mohammed V, whose son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, had established direct contact with Charles de Gaulle. The Paris weekly Jours de France quoted Abbas as telling its correspondent: "De Gaulle is a big caid [chief], and I am a big caid. So let's get together." Abbas' aides denied that he had made the statement...
...Summerfield put a cancellation stamp on rumors that he might run for office next year. "Look, I'm now 60!" cried he. "I've worked hard since I was 13 years old with hardly anything resembling a vacation. If I ran for anything, my wife would crown...
...Miss America, Mississippi's custom-made (36-24-36) Lynda Lee Mead, 20, got a roaring welcome-home parade in her home town of Natchez (pop. 29,200) from some 50,000 curbsiders. In Jackson, state legislators, elated over Mississippi misses copping the Miss America crown two years in a row, passed a resolution commending Lynda Lee, authorized issuance of special, optional license plates for cars' front bumpers (price: $1). The legend: "Mississippi, Home of Miss Americas, Land of Beautiful Women...