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...losses through graduation--Dike Hyde, Jerry Kanter, Paul O'Brien, Bill Rosenau, and Phil Connelly--hurt, particularly in the middle of the line. Although the 1950 line was offensively nothing to rhapsodic about, defensively, with O'Brien and Phil Isenberg as line- backers, it had a strength through the middle that could in the coming weeks prove lacking to a more or less tragic degree...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin jr., | Title: Ten Lettermen Return to Weak Line | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

McGeorge Bundy, lecturer on Government agreed with MacLeish that containment was toe passive a foreign policy. "What is necessary is active opposition to Soviet imperialism. You can't just build the dike and then put your thumb...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: Great Debate on Foreign Policy Still Rages for Five Professors | 3/28/1951 | See Source »

Dick Myers was high scorer of the day with 14 points for the Bunnies, who pulled away at the end of a tight game. In the Kirkland-Winthrop game, Dike Otherwise, either the defense assumed command, or several players shared the low scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Deacons, Eliot, Bellboys Win Low-Scoring Basketball Games | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

...cuts. When a flood swept away three oil tanks in Hartford, competing contractors estimated it would take six months and $65,000 to put them back in place again. McGraw & Co. took on the job for $13,000, did it in seven days by aping nature. Strike built a dike around the tanks, refloated them and easily put them back into position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Atomic Builder | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Only six weeks ago, Henry Ford II had promised that he would try to hold down the price of his cars. But last week, seeing a flood of price rises all around him, young Henry took his finger out of the hole in the dike. He boosted prices on the company's 1951 models an average of 5.5% (from $87.50 on the cheapest Ford to $185 on Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles). Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: We Cannot Accept ... | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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