Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting the jump on Harvard in creating an Afro-American major Yale may gain an advantage in recruiting black students, David K. Smith, Harvard Director of Admissions, said yesterday. "Blacks admitted to both schools may pick Yale on the basis of this decision," he added...
Each team is strongest in events where the other is weak--Harvard in the distance weight events, Army in the pole vault, high jump, hurdles, and dash. Today's meet should produce a number of lopsided wins, with the outcome hinging on the relays and the events where both teams are about equally strong--the middle distance races and the broad jump...
...seemed the Chicago police would have the last word. After Walker's attacks last week, Mayor Daley-flanked by smiling policemen-announced a $2,000 pay raise for the city's cops next year. Wages of a man with 42 months on the force, for example, will jump from $9,000 to $11,000 annually. The raises, boasted Daley, will "make them the highest-paid policemen in the nation...
Most universities would jump at the chance of getting a top presidential aide on their faculty, especially when his academic credentials are as lustrous as those of Walt Whitman Rostow. But when Rostow sought to reclaim his post as a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he left eight years ago to join John Kennedy, he was turned down. The most obvious explanation, that Rostow was blackballed for his hard line on Viet Nam, caused the New York Times's James Reston to write last week: "Is a man to be punished for beliefs sincerely...
...despite the demoralizing absence of gimpy Bob Galliers, Harvard's broad jumpers won all three places with Skip Hare in first with a 22' 6 1/2" jump...