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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since rebounding has been a major Crimson weak point in previous games (and against opponents of a less stratospheric sort), it will probably take some extremely fine shooting to defeat the Elis. In addition to Glynn, Yale has two other potentially dangerous scorers: Dan McFadden (12 points per), and forward Larry Downs...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: 12 Teams Prepare for Meets This Week | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

Among the heroic figures in Indo-China's past, no two are more revered than the fabled Trungs-the beautiful young sisters who raised an army against the Chinese invaders in the middle of the 1st century and, faced with defeat, threw themselves into the Red River rather than surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Dainty Emancipator | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poltergeist in the Parlor | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...first President to be barred by the Constitution (23rd Amendment) from running again. Having earnestly tried to stand above party, he made one of his rare ventures into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without particular reference to the desires of Dwight Eisenhower. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: President v. Congress | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

During World War II General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the North African and Normandy victories in the London office of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd. Last week the same office was the scene of a crushing defeat for British Aluminium in one of the biggest financial fights in the City's history. The victors: Britain's aggressive Tube Investments, Ltd., and Reynolds Metals, No. 2 U.S. aluminum company. Down with the British Aluminium management went Alcoa, No. 1 U.S. producer, which had hoped to get an important foothold in Europe's aluminum market by buying one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Aluminum Battlefield | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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