Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though invited to the eight team tournament, the visitors from Hamilton have played few opponents of real note and have lost a game or two to the likes of Cornell. In their three real contests, the Raiders have fallen to Clarkson, tied Army and edged Yale...
...still flickering, is about action, appeasement, war, and middle-class morality. Like Duerrenmatt, Frisch has a dour and sardonic vision of existence; unlike Duerrenmatt, he is maddeningly repetitive. What he spent more than four hours saying in his ear-bending, double-entry U.S. debut was once compressed by Alexander Hamilton into a single pungent sentence: "The people is a great beast...
...neighborly solution of their own. Nine banks in Hartford, Conn., plan to share a computer center; small banks in New York and Kansas are also taking up the idea. Such centers should make smaller banks competitive with big ones. The Hartford pool, designed by Chicago's Booz, Allen & Hamilton, will start in July, handling overnight all the deposit, savings and installment loan accounting for the nine banks. Each bank will simply have its entries typed up in special magnetic ink. At the close of day a truck will pick up the records and whisk them to the computer center...
...superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher has no present plans to issue the book...
Died. Major General John Hamilton Roberts, 70, Canadian commander of the controversial 1942 raid on the German-held resort town of Dieppe; of a heart attack on the Channel Island of Jersey. Planned as a "reconnaissance in force," the raid was a tactical disaster (only 2,500 returned out of 6.100 troops, most of them Canadian) but a valuable strategic lesson, proving that open beaches are more assailable than ports and that massive firepower is the key to the beach...