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Football coach John Yovicsin was given the major "H" last Fall after gaining Harvard's first Ivy grid crown since 1919. Other coaches holding the award include hockey veteran Cooney Weiland (whose team won the Ivy this year), highly successful track coach Bill McCurdy (whose squad took the indoor heps title last winter), and Jack Barnaby, producer of perenially strong teams in tennis and squash for 20 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Bill Brooks, Bruce Munro Given Major 'H' Letters | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...will save the Government about $27 million. Udall also hopes that it will help to "bank the fires" of the whole rancorous power struggle, encourage private utilities to come to the support of his long-range plan for a hookup of private and public sources into a nationwide power grid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Private Power Victory | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropologist Leads Expedition In France | 1/10/1962 | See Source »

...Janczar) pretends "we're walking in a dark and fragrant wood," but his blonde, tough-minded mistress (Teresa Izewska) shatters the illusion tersely: "We're walking in [obscenity]." The lovers' goal is to reach the sewer's outlet in the Vistula; when they do, a grid of iron bars blocks them. Still the hero, who has lost none of his heart-rending hope, can say: "Daisy, the sun is shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pair from Poland | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...navigational aids on the nation's airways. Loaded with electronic equipment, the plane was off for its first check run at its home base, FAA's Aeronautical Center at Will Rogers Field. It will fly back and forth across the U.S., following a carefully plotted grid course, to check the strength and direction of ground-based signals, cover the entire network every 90 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Raising the Safety Margin | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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