Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YALE: The Elis are due to move up, if only because they have nowhere else to go. Coach Jordan Oliver will have most of last year's team back, which may or may not be a blessing. The quarterback problem seems to be working itself out, with Bill Leckonby, Tom Singleton and Art LaVallie the top candidates...
...81st year began officially yesterday with the formal opening of the College at 4 p.m. in the Cambridge Congregational Church. Addressing students in the College and the Radcliffe Graduate School were Kathleen O. Elliott, dean of Instruction, Janet Webster '59, president of the Student Government Association, and Wilbur K. Jordan, president of the College...
President Jordan said in part, "Radcliffe College exists for only one purpose--to provide that beneficent and civilizing discipline which is the virility of education.... You have come here not to find a husband, but to gain an education. Tend then to the education, for the getting of a husband will take care of itself...
...trace the cracks 40,000 miles clear around the earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land masses, but in a few places they run ashore, forming, for instance, the steep-sided Jordan Valley and the famous rift system in East Africa which contains both Lake Tanganyika and the Red Sea. Another crack runs ashore in Mexico, to form the Gulf of California and the Imperial Valley...
...more than two years, the feud between Egypt's Colonel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein fairly curdled the Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...