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Skiing without their number one man, Harry Gardner, the skiers lost by a narrow 15 point margin. McGill, the host, finished first with 556 points, followed by Laval of Quebec, 552, and the Dartmouth B team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sporting Scene | 2/23/1954 | See Source »

...Crimson will compete against Cornell, M.I.T., St. Michaels, Laval (a Canadian University), University of Montreal, and the Dartmouth "B" team, which won the Norwich Carnival last week, defeating host Norwich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

...Laval Robillard '53 replied that "football is very definitely not part of the college curriculum." Robert Langston '53 contrasted football in terms of the "ethical idea of a university" and the "aesthetic beauty of a good football team," and decided in favor of the present football setup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athenaeum Hears Grid Policies Hit | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Predicting an Eisenhower victory of 290 electoral votes, Laval E. Rabillard '53, secretary of the Young Republicans, said, "We'll take a majority of the pivotal states." Of these he listed New York, California, Illinois, and Massachusetts as going Republican, by small margins in some cases...

Author: By William M. Execher, | Title: Politicos Labor at Polls All Day; Predict Victory for Own Favorite | 11/4/1952 | See Source »

After the war, Jouhaux helped found the International Labor Organization at the Paris peace conference. In the '30s, he and his C.G.T. were a linchpin of the Socialist Front Populaire; fighting Franco, Laval and Hitler, he worked alongside the Communists. The Germans interned him in a castle in Bavaria during World War II. When he returned, he found that the Communists had moved into the C.G.T. like moths. He had to accept a Communist as "co-secretary general." For a time Jouhaux put up with the comrades, but by the end of 1947, he saw that he was simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Nobel Prizewinner | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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