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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard needed the outstanding pitching performance because Princeton, which is now 2-3 in the league, got an equally fine job from sophomore Mike Fremuth. He held the Crimson nine to only five hits and also pitched the complete game...
Princeton narrowed the score to 2-1 in their half of the inning with the help of two Crimson errors. First baseman Bob Schiffner lined a drive to left field that John Ignacio tried to catch on the run. The ball got past the Crimson captain and Schiffner advanced to second. On a pick-off attempt, Kalinowski threw the ball into center field, and Schiffner scored from third on a single by Ray Huard...
...Fifty years ago," says Tichauer, "men like Gilbreth produced many solutions, but there were no problems. Today we've got the problems." Even where the problems are now resolutely faced, he claims, they are often approached from the wrong direction. He contends that too often equipment is manufactured today for a person who, in his opinion, does not exist: the average man. The human frame comes in a dismaying range of sizes and configurations, and industry must reach at least a reasonable compromise with this unavoidable fact...
Japan's gadget-minded, scoop-chasing editors are convinced it all pays off. Mainichi's newsmen still gloat about a photo they got of the Rising Sun replacing the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima last summer, even though the ceremony marking the return of Japanese sovereignty ended just 15 minutes before the paper's evening deadline. As the ceremony ended, a Beechcraft took off from Iwo Jima, 775 miles south of Tokyo, and negatives were processed aboard. Another plane sped toward Iwo, received the photos by radio when the planes were 250 miles apart, then turned...
...studded with such advice as "Don't waste odd pieces of time" and "Write regularly." One point that he might have stressed more is the need for persistence, which his own literary practice dramatically illustrates: in 1913, he began taking notes for a book, Hannibal's Legacy, got around to writing it in 1957, and published...