Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember, someone told me at the time that this was a very wise decision. Maybe it was Henry Luce, though I might have made it up myself. In any event, I still feel no regrets. There's an advantage in the captive audience that I can't overstress. And so much of value goes on here completely divorced from the classroom. For instance, I thoroughly enjoy those lively discussions in the Winthrop House dining room...
Both the Penn and Columbia teams have improved in recent meets and each has an outstanding number one runner. Penn's sophomore star, Dick Tracy, is considered the top sophomore distance runner in the Ivy League and placed second in the IC4A freshman two mile event last year. Columbia's Jose Iglesias had a sensational sophomore year two years ago, but has been hampered by a series of injuries since then...
Gordon added that Warmerdam's help should make prospects for pole vaulters fairly bright. Two athlete's prominent in their fall sports, Sam Halaby and Tom Blodgett, are expected to go out for the event. Halaby vaulted 12ft. 6in. last season, "and will go much higher this year," according to Gordon...
...President Chiang Kaishek, old U.S. ally, called his first press conference in three years, added to Dulles' troubles by proclaiming that I) the U.S.'s recent meetings with Red China diplomats in Warsaw to negotiate a cease-fire were "futile," and 2) the U.S., in any event, had "approved" his decision to move strong forces onto Quemoy and the other offshore islands. "Fear," said Chiang, "grows the farther you get from the front-all the way back to the U.S." In a speech to the National Guard Association of the U.S. at Atlantic City, N.J., Under Secretary...
This week, after 44 days of shelling the tiny islands with little or no military gain, Communism drew back a step or so. Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed softly that the U.S.S.R. would come to the aid of Red China only in the event of "an attack from without"-i.e., an attack by the U.S. Then Red China ordered a seven-day cease-fire in the Formosa Strait, and Red China's Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai sent a special message to the Nationalists proposing peace talks between Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. While holding out what...