Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board with a 15?-an-hour clerking job in a campus drugstore, and slept with ten other students in an icy attic. But after his sophomore year he went home. His father could no longer afford to keep two sons in college (Brother Ralph, a senior, was allowed to finish out the year...
...Muriel Buck, a pretty Huron College student. Muriel began eating her lunch at the drugstore ("I could throw a wicked sandwich together," says Humphrey), and after two years Hubert proposed. In the evenings, in their three-room bungalow, Hubert told Muriel of his restlessness, of his desire to finish his education and to get into the political swim. Finally, at his wife's urging and with his father's blessing, Hubert pulled up stakes, went back to the University of Minnesota and plunged into political science and scientific campus politicking. "My whole world," he recalls with obvious pleasure...
Next day she was even better in the hell-bent downhill, daringly shaving her final turn to finish in a time of 1:57.1 that seemed good enough to win. But while chatting confidently with newsmen, Penny learned that it was not that easy: an unknown Austrian 16-year-old named Traudl Hecher had snatched away first place with...
Carroll was not even winded at the finish. A nationally-known prodigy even in his high school years, he seems ready at last to attain the heights everyone predicted for him. He will menace Crimson performers in the 1000, mile, and both relays this winter...
...tiny country wedged between Austria and Switzerland. The argument: Would Liechtenstein (pop. 16,000) be represented at the Winter Olympics in California's Squaw Valley next month? No, thundered Chief of Government Alexander Frick, worried lest Liechtenstein's honor be compromised by a last-place finish at the games. "Those who come in last have the real Olympic spirit," countered Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, Chief of Mission for the Liechtenstein Winter Olympic Team. "I wouldn't dream of winning." Added the baron darkly: "There will be a revolution if they...