Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students must wait a year before playing on varsity teams. Until someone read the rule book, the university golf team, which often practices at private clubs, faced a season of play restricted to public courses. A likely looking 19-year-old sophomore who had transferred from Doane College, Crete, Neb. seemed certain to make the team-and just as sure not to be welcome at Denver's private clubs. The promising golfer is named Nate Goldstein. He is a Negro...
...trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when...
...Union Committee has chosen its officers and Student Council representatives. Eugene Langevin of Stoughton Hall and Ferndale, Mich., has been chosen chairman, J. Thomas Rosche of Massachusetts Hall and Omaha, Neb., vice-chairman and treasurer, and Robert W. Wilkinson, Jr. of Grays Hall and Portland, Ore., secretary. Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Robert E. Weil, and Hastings Wyman, Jr. are the new Council representatives...
...Crimson team placed second in debate and first in discussion this weekend at the Omaha, Neb. Invitational Tournament. David L. Bynum '59, and Gregory M. Harvey '59 tied as top speakers. In a greater Boston tournament, Crimson teams took first and second places...
...from Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the budget-conscious Midwest, came a remarkable wire sent by officials of the National Bank of Commerce to President Eisenhower. The bankers suggested that Deputy Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay be placed in charge of a unified U.S. missile program. Then they said: "As bankers, we realize the dilemma facing us-maintaining prosperity while controlling inflation, and at the same time maintaining a costly war-deterrent machine. We assure you of our backing in a program that will guarantee survival...