Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no question, moreover, that this may be the best Tufts team ever fielded and Lloyd Jordan and his staff are doing their best to keep the Crimson "up" for the game--to avoid the defeat handed it by UMass, 13-7, two years ago. But with so many schools of Harvard's size to play, it seems foolish for the Crimson to persist in playing games with teams that "have nothing to lose and everything to gain...
...percent of canal tolls are still being paid to the old Canal Co. accounts in London and Paris or to blocked accounts elsewhere. U.S. ships have been paying most of what the Egyptians have been collecting-under protest. Skeptical insurance firms hiked rates for ships transiting Suez by 150%. Lloyd's of London reported at least a dozen ships diverted from Suez to make the long voyage around the Cape. One bad slip and the canal could be closed for days...
...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...
...Died. Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis...
Edward Stone, the State Department and the Indian government are all pleased with the resulting design. "I think the outstanding thing about it is its calmness and serenity, which an Indian building should have," says Architect Stone. "Frank Lloyd Wright, who never seems to like anybody else's work, told me that this was one of the finest buildings in the last hundred years...