Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence is doubly required. There is a conflict here, though, for the prime minister of any such organization must be policitically adept and ruthless if he is to meet today's problem effectively, traits which endear one to nobody. A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success...
After Morse's feat, the rest of the 28-hr.49-min. session (longest since 1950) was an anticlimax. Backing down from the stand he had taken earlier in the week...
...Soviet Pact with Hitler in 1939, and it survived even that cynical deal. The great Stalin myth did not prevent the German army from sweeping through western Russia less than two years later. In the space of four months it had reached the outskirts of Moscow and Leningrad: a feat made possible, in part, by the defection of hundreds of Stalin-hating Russian generals and the surrender of 4,000,000 peasant soldiers. But other millions of Russian soldiers held out, and so did Stalin's luck: General Winter stepped in, as he had 130 years before, when Napoleon...
...tough, aloof Scotsman. The son of an oilman, he started out in Scotland's hardscrabble oil-shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy chairman, Fraser planned the merger which combined Britain's two largest oil distributors into one company, Shell...
...only other double-winner was the Crimson's Dave Hedberg--who has performed this feat every time this season he had appeared in two events. Hedberg won the 100-yard sprints in the respectable time of 52.5 seconds, ahead of Crimson Captain Ron Huebsch. In the 220-yard freestyle, Hedberg boat teammate Marv Sandler...