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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shout and pound the table the way I do. He can be firm as a rock." Shortly after he took over as boss of the Navy, Anderson overruled a promotion board's decision to pass over abrasive Captain Hyman Rickover, nuclear submarine pioneer, for the second and final time (two failures to win promotion to rear admiral meant automatic retirement). Determined to keep Rickover in the Navy, Anderson ordered a selection board to promote to rear admiral one engineering captain experienced in atomic propulsion. The only man in the Navy who filled the bill was Hyman Rickover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Quiet Crusader | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Accordingly, with the five-year lead erased, the CRIMSON is obliged to assume this final honor. Having permitted the News several months of grace in which to withdraw the title from her front page, the new "OCD" has been obliged to adopt it outright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Daily News Defaults Title As CRIMSON Becomes 'OCD' | 11/21/1959 | See Source »

...center for the study of world religions, dedicated to the "sympathetic study" of leading world faiths, will be constructed by the University in the near future. Although final plans have not yet been settled for the structure, ground breaking will probably be held late this fall...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: New Building Will House Church Study | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

Tension began to build with the final practice and rally last evening. It will increase at 8:50 this morning when the squad leaves South Station for New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Finishes Practices | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...final Crimson football practice of the 1959 season ended last night in a dash down a flare-lined aisle outside Dillon Fieldhouse to the accompaniment of the Harvard Band and the hearty applause of a meager huddle of undergraduate well-wishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Finishes Practices | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

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