Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet." Jack Nicklaus has rarely been rattled since. Says his father:"Once, when he was 15, I was driving him to a tournament. I started to en courage him and tell him 'You're good enough to win this.' He told me, 'I know it. Now be quiet." At 16, Nicklaus won his first major tournament, the Ohio Open, from a full field of professionals-shooting a record first round 64 and leading all the way. Meanwhile, he was making quite a reputation for himself as an all-round athlete. "When he was in junior high...
...Gaulle's concept of a Europe consist ing of federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members of the National Assembly signed a manifesto rejecting De Gaulle's view of European organization as "old-fashioned" diplomacy...
...Harvard bitterness had subsided, the Lampoon had not. Somewhat later in the Class of 1937's sophomore year, the 'Poon put out its notorious "Esquire" issue, whose contents led the University to shut down the Lampoon building for almost a month and pressure the publication's officers into an en masse resignation...
...captain Gib LaMotte, a pinched nerve, and the hottest game day of the season all played a part in the Yale lacrosse team's whopping 13 to 7 vicotry over the varsity Saturday. En route to their second Ivy defeat of the season, the Crimson stickmen lost face-off after face-off, neglected to pick up loose ground balls, failed to clear consistently, and suffered heavily in the 99-degree weather. The Bulldogs didn't seem to mind the heat...
...distance between the swordsmen. Unlike a duel, the fighters are not responding to a challenge, and in fact may not even know each other. The Mensur also differs in the extensive safeguards aimed at preventing any killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains one student at the University of Munich. He sees fraternities as a splendid antidote to the rootless "academic proletariat" at West...