Word: footings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailing team will enter the 24th Annual Brown University Spring Regatta at Providence today with little chance of being among the top finishers. Crimson skippers Carlos Rodriguez and Art Donovan will race Brown's 12-foot dinghies on the Seekonk River against a strong field of seven other teams...
...seven-school meet at Tech today the two Crimson Freshman crews stand a good chance of sailing away with honors in 12-foot Tech dinghies. The Freshman sailors will also compete in the octagonals at Brown tomorrow, at which the Coast Guard Cadets are favored to defeat their opponents...
...first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince for a parvenu, he shot a derisive shaft at Khrushchev, "whom I met not so very...
...dormitory, Freshman John Thomas, 18, gangly (6 ft. 4¾ in.), growing Negro who in February jumped higher (7 ft. 1¼ in.) than any other man in recorded athletic history, slammed shut the latticework gate on an upward-bound elevator. When it rose, Thomas' size 12 left foot was jammed between the car and the shaft walls. Result: severe lacerations and bruises. After surgery, doctors predicted that High Jumper Thomas would be off the sawdust for six to twelve weeks...
...Caught in a taxi in the middle of a St. Louis traffic jam, he lectured the captive driver: "Now if we all drove small cars, we'd have a lot less trouble like this." His parting tip as he abandoned the cab and sprinted off on foot: "Next time try a Rambler...