Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson upset Colby, but lost to the University of Connecticut and Amherst. Underdog Dartmouth, on a sensational last second basket by Dick Fairly, edged UConn, 66 to 65, to capture the tournament title. The Huskies, with a 90 plus scoring average, were pre-tournament favorites to recapture the crown...
...They're just content to settle down as housewives." Japan's Crown Prince Alcihrro turned 21, enjoyed a rare reunion with his family (court protocol requires that crown princes grow up virtual strangers to their parents), then was off for a round of tea parties in his honor. Sobersided Akihito unbent enough to show the whimsy lurking beneath his royal aloofness. Mindful of perennial rumors that his engagement will be announced momentarily, the prince slyly eyed a school friend and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit too early for me to be tied...
Antifreeze Gas. To prevent automobile fuel lines, pumps, etc.from freezing with the water that condenses inside the gas tank, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) is putting a new additive into its premium White Crown gas. The additive forms a solution with the water to keep it from freezing (down to 20° below zero) in the fuel lines...
...traditional reccoon coat fedes farther into the past and the bulky coat of recent years gives way to the lighter, weather repellent fabrics with zip-in linings. That felt hat still crown the style of Harvard's well dressed...
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WILD WEST, by James D. Horan and Paul Sann (254 pp.; Crown; $5.95), will give some fun to anyone interested in the violence of the old West, with photographs of hundreds of bad men, bad women and the marshals who brought them...