Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will hold a concert t 7 p.m. tonight on the steps of Widener, followed by a sight-reading of Brahms' Requiem in Sever 11 conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24. All singers invited...
...education at Penn is pretty good, and no one would deny that there were a few smart people there. But in the past, their, their teams were losing ones, at least when Harvard was the opponent. Only in basketball did the Quakers hold an edge, and they had never beaten a Harvard squad in squash, cross country, or hockey. It was tradition to lose to the Crimson, and a damn good one at that...
...Spur of Competition. If not war, then Realpolitik may hold the key to the future of manned space flight-and future prosperity of NASA itself. Sputnik spawned Apollo, and Soviet competition can be expected to spur other U.S. space ventures. Several Russians have recently emerged from a sealed chamber with self-contained life-support systems, after a year-the duration of a manned voyage to Mars. Moreover, NASA officials claim that Soviet scientists may soon unveil a rocket big enough to fly directly from earth to the moon, land and take off again. Such brute-force spacemanship might convince...
Died. Zakir Husain, 72, President of India and first member of his country's minority (10%) Moslem faith to hold such high, though largely ceremonial office; in New Delhi. Amid a tradition of bitter enmity between Hindus and Moslems, the onetime university chancellor's election in 1967 was a significant step toward fulfilling the dream of the late Jawaharlal Nehru that India would become a secular, not a Hindu, state...
...Pepper's; there's Hank Williams, the bad cowboy, but he was sad, too, man. Stoic on the floor, the sad-bad hillbilly. Crazy Dylan flagging down huge trucks on Highway 61, the Automatic Kid, Energy Beam Rocker. He can't catch anything, just hold his collar to his neck and fall back when the wind hits him. Charly Parker smiling, no black revolt for him, it's all very foggy, bip-bop, if you would be so kind as to dig that. But Gerry Mulligan says hello to Monk on the other side of the fence, and Gerry...