Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many experts, a clear corollary of the great Northeastern blackout in November was that the Federal Power Commission should exercise closer control over the utility companies. Last week, before a special House subcommittee holding the first congressional hearings on the near disaster, FPC Chairman Joseph Swidler added his voice to those who advocate strengthening the agency...
When President Joseph Mobutu showed up in Leopoldville's King Baudouin Stadium for his first major public appearance last week, the 30,000 people on hand thought it odd that he was in informal khakis instead of his bemedaled full-dress general's uniform. There was a reason. Mobutu was there to urge his nation to get down to work. For five years, he claimed, politicians had "sacrificed the country for their own interests" and had brought it "hatred, quarrels and corruption." "The Congo no longer produces," he said, "the people no longer work...
...getting harder and harder for St. Joseph's College of Philadelphia to maintain its position as the most underrated basketball school in the U.S. Not that St. Joe's doesn't try. A small (enrollment: 1,719) Jesuit liberal arts college, it conducts no high-powered recruiting campaign, schedules no gut courses for athletes, and employs a lecturer in education as head coach. Considering also that all but one of the players on the St. Joe's varsity come from Pennsylvania, and that the average height of the squad is a mere...
...third straight N.C.A.A. championship, dropped two games in a row to Duke. Duke thereby jumped all the way from No. 6 to No. 1, despite a loss to unranked South Carolina. Michigan lost 100-94 to Wichita State but still held the No. 3 spot. By contrast, St. Joseph's highflying Hawks were not only still undefeated, they had not come within 17 points of losing. In two games last week, they clobbered Albright, 85-54, and Michigan State...
...Ramsay is a pretty ferocious fellow himself-wringing towels, bouncing up and down on the bench, shouting hoarse-voiced encouragement to his Hawks. "He's so intense that it's almost impossible to speak to him for ten or fifteen minutes after a game," says a St. Joseph's administrator. "He gets 'em up so far that after we won one game a couple of our subs were in the dressing room crying, and they hadn't even been in the game...