Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last Saturday, as the League's leading representative, the University of Pennsylvania, gave a traditionally strong Navy eleven a real scare, and then settled for a 22-22 tie. Playing before 26,000 spectators at Franklin Field, the Quakers served notice on their remaining Ivy opponents and the major Eastern powers as well...
While Government and industry spokesmen worried on about how to solve the crucial problems of the nation's railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss...
...does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel. He has no personal servant, and it takes a nimble bellhop to beat the billionaire out of carrying his own bags...
...heavyweights, this was the first Henley competition since 1950, when the Crimson made its third successful attempt to take the Grand. The previous victories were in 1914 and 1939. Stroked by sophomore Perry Boyden, the heavies had already enjoyed an excellent season, climaxed by edging out Syracuse for the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges title in May and thrashing Yale at New London on June 13. On the few occasions during the season when they were called on for maximum effort, the heavies repeatedly demonstrated their great potential. On one occasion in early May they set a new course record...
...wide base of the ISC deeply affected policy within NSA. A great number of Latin American, African and Middle Eastern student associations joined ISC, bringing with them their concern for politics. Suddenly, student issues were no longer travel, hostles and book stores, but prisons, persecution and Peron...