Word: nears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took him to visit Harvard--my first return there in a number of years. I was ashamed for him to see the sleazy characters who were wandering around the Yard. However, I would not have one lock of their greasy looking, long hair shorn by edict nor force them near a drop of water nor insist that they wear perfume. But I certainly cannot say that I was proud of the outward appearance of the old Alma Mater as far as its students were concerned...
Coming after two near-losses to Cornell and M.I.T. last week, the match with the Crusaders never posed a real threat to the team's winning streak. The highlight of the Holy Cross Match was Yank Heisler's 4 and 3 victory over his Crusader opponent. Playing two under par for fifteen holes, Heisler's score was his best since the beginning of the year...
...WEATHER is warm now. A Challenge class plays on the common near Memorial Hall; seven or eight kids scurry on top of one another to build a pyramid while their two teachers scurry past each other to take photographs of them. Marc is in that class; I see him, hands in pockets, anticipating his jump onto the pyramid. Marc transferred out of my class this term to be with more of his friends; he seems happier and more relaxed...
Though Wolfson's personal fortune, once estimated at more than $75 million, has shriveled considerably, he still owns some $6,400,000 worth of Merritt-Chapman shares, a large horse-breeding farm near Ocala and an interest in a Jacksonville movie and television firm. Wolfson himself suffered a heart attack in 1966. His wife died last year of cancer. If both appeals fail, Wolfson still will have to serve a minimum of ten months...
...have 2,000,000 steady customers and ten times as many occasional ones. Yet Beate is some thing of a social outcast. The West German Association of Women Entrepreneurs has resolutely refused to admit her to membership. Church leaders regularly denounce her. Even the tennis club in Flensburg near her home will not allow her to join...