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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rushed through a series of tests just before its October deadline for ceasing them last fall. On Oct. 1, 1958, the three nuclear powers began to negotiate the political realization of the system agreed upon by the experts...
...from the Hardtack II series of four underground nuclear explosions the previous October invalidated the findings of the Geneva experts. The main result showed that primary waves were weaker than expected and therefore were harder to distinguish from smaller quakes. The Russians steadily refused to study this data until last week, claiming it was merely an attempt by the U.S. to sabotage the conference. Certainly the way and manner in which this information was released by the U.S. appeared to be deliberately misleading...
...University's other service clash, against Navy a week later, will probably be one of the most important matches. Last year at Annapolis, the Middies were able to capitalize on their overheated courts and over-came the visitors, later winning the Eastern Championship. But this year the game will be in Cambridge, and the squash team is hoping to avenge the defeat...
True, Harvard has lost last year's top man, Captain Charlie Hamm; but three other members of the 1959 top five, Gerry Emmett, Tim Gallmey, and Fred Vinton, are back and playing one, two, and three for the Crimson. Helping them out is last year's freshman star, Romer Holleran, who ranked among the top half-dozen school-age squash players in the country when he played for Exeter...
Coach Floyd Wilson, although predicting that "we'll improve over last year," admits that this season's unit is "farther behind in progress as a team than any other squad I've ever had." Only one member of the starting five returns at the same position he played last winter, although four are tested competitors. Of the tenman varsity squad, three are seniors, two juniors, and the rest sophomores, giving Wilson one of the youngest teams in the East...