Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantic second overtime, Ekpebu almost gave the Crimson a victory when he took a perfect pass from inside Bruce Johnstone and booted a hard crossing shot just inches above the crossbar. With one minute to go, Williams had a chance to put the game away after Eph center Ben Henszey got loose for a clear shot from 10 feet away. But Henszey hesitated too long, and charging Crimson defenders forced him to shoot high and to the left...
...allowed earlier this fall that his squad was "one of the best in years." This can only mean that the Ephs are loaded. Their halfback line, led by Ben Field and Jim Fox, returns intact from last season, and all the Ephmen are big, rough operatives who play a hard-running, straight-ahead type of game...
...West Africans, were truly uncommitted. There were satellite representatives ready to engage in reasonable discussion, despite a careful prior selection of delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...
Died. Sumner H. Slichter, 67, white-thatched, aggressively independent economist, Lament Professor (1940-59) at Harvard, who tested his academic theories by constant contact with people active in business, labor and government, filled nine books and countless articles with a hard-headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted...
Sapphire (Rank; Universal-International) is a semiprecious British attempt to admix a sociological problem drama with a flat-out murder mystery. The jewel of the title is a beautiful, auburn-haired girl; as the film begins, she is found lying face up on the hard ground of Hampstead Heath with six knife wounds around her heart...