Word: leges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while it seemed that every col lege coach in every sport wanted Baker, who finally chose Oregon State after cautioning Coach Prothro that he might not even go out for football. True to his warning, Baker passed up freshman football; he was determined to get good grades in engineering. Recalls Professor Richard L. Richardson: "On his second day of school as a freshman, Terry raised his hand and asked if the homework amounted to nothing more than it appeared to be. I said 'No,' and he shook his head in disgust. Everybody in the class gave...
...rigors of the trials were over, the showdown at Rome was still a fortnight away, but the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team was in no relaxing mood. The big idea at the final tune-up meet at California's Mount San Antonio Col lege, explained Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, was "to go over there to Rome with something to scare 'em with." The scare was there: in one evening the U.S. stars broke four world records and tied two more...
...Pete Seeger, 41, quit Harvard to study folk music, has since cut some 50 albums that have made him the hero of the col lege folk revival. Seeger's voice is twangy and his pitch uncertain, but he sings with unequaled verve and a kind of rough-hewn sense of conviction. An ardent leftwinger, he once sang many industrial songs, now is better known for Appalachian mountain songs (Pretty Polly) and Negro classics like I'm on My Way and Takes a Worried...
...transforming Stowe, Vt. into the Magic Mountain of New England skiing, underwrote the cost of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mad ame Butterfly (TIME, March 3, 1958), and has helped further international relations by annually providing scholarships in U.S. schools for some 20 foreign col lege students...