Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chances are, however, that tonight's game (to be broadcast over WHRB beginning at 8 p.m.) will result in neither extreme outcome. Harvard has performed well at Ithaca in the last two years, losing only by narrow 7-6 and 4-3 scores. And on the other hand, in its three years of ascendancy, Coach Ned Harkness's team has never lost an important Ivy game. The token defeats--to Harvard, Yale, and this season Brown--have been significant only as demonstrations that Cornell could lose...
Watson describes his own shortcomings of laziness and lack of direction; his narrow escape from physical attack by a female crystallographer when he challenged her theories; the abrasive personality of talented Co-worker Crick; an incredible high school-level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow...
...vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city's population...
...plan for a Central Business District is not quite so far along though we have already entered the early land-acquisition and construction stage. The Project will be carried on in stages and will endeavor to put some order into the mish-mash of narrow streets which we inherited from our forebears...
Harvard's narrow 64-60 victory over Northeastern in the Greater Boston meet wasn't decided until the final event Saturday afternoon. Ahead of the second-place Huskies by only three points, Harvard's relay team sped home in 3:26.3 for five first-place points and the meet victory...