Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rear row, "is little more than a pious admonition of concern." Added Illinois' fatigued and visibly angry Paul Douglas: "The Committee on Finance reported a papier-mâché whale." But Democrats Kennedy and Douglas stood virtually alone as they chided the Senate for its low-pressure approach to a watered-down bill for extending unemployment compensation. The bill had already been passed by the House (TIME, May 12) and approved without a comma's change by Harry Flood Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. Last week it was shepherded toward quick passage by Virginia...
Joel Landau, the varsity track team's stellar hurdler, climaxed probably the greatest personal season in Crimson track history last weekend, as he won both the 120-yard high hurdles and 220-yard low hurdles titles in the ICAAAA meet at Villanova...
...story of the meet, from a Crimson standpoint, was all Landau, Harvard's first winner in a running event since E.E. "Gene" Record won the low hurdles in 1932, his third straight win in the event...
...With the low hurdle field narrowed by the qualifying heat, and only three of the six in each semi-final heat qualifying for the finals, Landau took no chances. He asserted himself from the start and won with ease in 23.0 seconds, breaking the Crimson mark of 23.4 seconds set by Bob Rittenburg in 1955. At that, according to his coach, Bill McCurdy, Landau appeared eased up at the finish...
...sixth race in two days, the low hurdles finals, he and Cornell's Bo Roberson ran nip and tuck for the first six hurdles as both pulled away from the rest of the field. Again Landau's conditioning proved the big margin as he pulled away and finished the race all by himself. His winning time of 22.9 seconds broke his day-old record, but was disallowed because of a trailing wind of five and one-half miles, one-half mile too much for an official record...