Word: guarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...
Growlers & Brash. A small West German ocean-going trawler, the Johannes Krüss, and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
Next day, with the three rescue vessels at the site, the U.S.S. Campbell reported that conditions were worse than anything the Coast Guard cutter had seen on convoy duty during World War II. There was one mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...sophomore guard Murray Milton who was the game's high scorer with 25 points, Columbia took the lead early in the game. At the seven-minute mark with Harvard leading, 9-8, the Lions scored seven straight points and began to pull away. At one point late in the first half, Columbia led by 16 points, 33-17, but the Crimson rallied to narrow the Lions' margin 36-28 at half-time...
Archie Oldham, in his first year as coach of the Lions, will be counting heavily on the performance of captain Phil Matthews, a senior, and Murray Melton, a sophomore guard. Melton broke Chet Forte's freshman scoring record last year by racking up 531 point for the season and a 25.3 average per game...