Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, predictably, massacred Penn's hockey team 15-1 Saturday night, but you couldn't expect a squad from the Ivy League's southernmost outpost to be any good at hockey. After all, does Miami have a curling team...
Pity was the best the Quakers could expect from the sparse crowd at the Watson Rink. Playing in their first Ivy League game ever, the Penn sextet was inept in every imaginable department...
...launches of probes to Mars and Venus. But that success was the apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary probes is beginning to catch up to the quantity. U.S. experts expect a rash of additional Russian planetary shots in 1969 and the early 1970s, including a Martian soft-landing attempt as early...
...Alleghany Corp. President Charles Thomas Ireland Jr. is a veteran of more corporate combat than most businessmen could expect to see, or survive, in a lifetime. In 17 years with the huge holding company, which controls railroad, mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7 billion, Ireland has been a top tactician, first for the late Robert Young, more recently for Financier Allan P. Kirby, in seemingly endless court squabbles with stockholders, in bitter battles for the control of railroads (the New York Central, the Missouri Pacific) and in savage proxy fights for Alleghany itself (with...
...industry's return on its invested capital has now fallen from the 11% ceiling set by the Civil Aeronautics Board to about 10%, and some analysts expect it to dip lower. That, of course, could complicate its future borrowing. "We are in no current crisis," says President Stuart Tipton of the Air Transport Association, "but all of us have got to pay major attention to our problems...