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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, he brings speed and power to the Crimson lineup. With Ravenel, Sam Halaby, and Larry Repsher to share the running, the Crimson backfield is certainly the Tigers' equal...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...School first conceived of the project when the Rockefeller Foundation gave it a large sum for "construction purposes." Since then, a "quiet campaign" has raised almost enough money to equal the government gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Grants Million Dollars For Nine-Story Research Building | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...still being created. The newly created matter is generally believed to appear throughout space in the form of hydrogen atoms (one proton and one electron each), but Gold and Hoyle now think it may first appear as neutrons. Since neutrons are unstable, they break up almost immediately, yielding equal numbers of protons and electrons. This neutron decay releases so much energy that the resulting "cosmological material" has the temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Universe | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Louisiana State (6-0)-never spectacular but, as always, equal to the occasion, edging Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because it helped Flem to become the bank's president. Behind him he left a trail of foreclosed mortgages, underhanded legal victories, cold-blooded assaults on human decency. In him Faulkner raised a monument not only to the worst kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga's End | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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