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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defensively, Middlebury has only one experienced pair of defensemen, and their goalie saw only 10 minutes of action all last season. The Crimson's main hope of repeating last year's victory will lie in the possibility of penetrating the defense frequently and effectively. A week ago against Boston College, the varsity could do the former but not the latter...
...those few of the intellectual patricians making up the Cambridge Scene who are tuned in on the main line of American folk culture, the names of Stella Dallas, Dick Tracy, Arthur Godfrey and Betty Crocker are not ciphers in a general twentieth-century void. These names and others like them are significant contributions to a respectable mass of Americana, as worthy of preservation as the Declaration of Independence or George Washington's garter...
Passed last year, the act authorizes more than $1 billion in Federal grants over a four year period. Its half dozen main programs are designed to indentify, and help establish, each student's abilities; to improve instruction in science, mathematics, and languages; to provide more college teachers, more loans for college students, and to stimulate educational research...
...York, Chicago & St. Louis). A merger of the seven roads would be bigger than either the Central or the Pennsy, the nation's largest road, and nearly as big as the proposed merger of the two. The seven roads together would have 19,050 miles of main track in ten states (including many duplicated facilities), compared with 12,800 miles owned by the Central and Pennsy, and total assets of $4.1 billion, v. $4.4 billion for the Central and Pennsy...
...which share the profitable soft-coal Pocahontas region with the Chesapeake & Ohio, announced that they had started studies for a merger that would add "strength to strength." Both lines are efficient operators but could profit by merging. Their merger would create a new system having 2,695 miles of main track in the South and combined assets of more than $900 million...