Word: harrison
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...medley (butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke, freestyle), Stanford Junior George Harrison, 20, won in 4:28.6 to better by 2.6 sec. the fastest time ever recorded for the event and earn high praise from Yale's Coach Emeritus Bob Kiphuth: "Technically the greatest all-round swimmer in the world." Behind Harrison was Sophomore Lance Larson of the University of Southern California, who himself was .5 sec. under the record...
...Arthur Harrison Motley, 59, publisher-president of Parade magazine since 1946, was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will become chairman of the board. Garrulous, cigar-smoking "Red" Motley, who has sold zithers, Fuller brushes and cough syrup, is sometimes called one of the twelve best U.S. salesmen, has hiked Parade's circulation from 2,000,000 to nearly 10 million, its gross from $1,800,000 to $25 million. He considers it his duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Rex Harrison stars in Dear Arthur, Gore Vidal's adaptation of a comedy-drama by Ferenc Molnar...
...Fabulous Fifties (CBS, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). A backward look that takes in a talented team of entertainers who lent the decade distinction. Guests include Jackie Gleason, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Shelley Berman, Nichols and May, Photographer Richard Avedon, and the playwriting duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...effectively as do Holland's skilled farmers, British Economist Colin Clark estimates that present agricultural techniques would support 28 billion people (ten times the present world population) at a European level of diet. "The basic raw materials for the industries of the future," says Caltech's Geochemist Harrison Brown, "will be sea water, air, ordinary rock, sedimentary deposits of limestone and phosphate, rock, and sunlight. All the ingredients essential to a highly industrialized society are present in the combination of those substances." The dwindling of usable supplies of fresh water is being matched by steady progress toward...