Word: nine
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Chris Herter, 63, was born and schooled in Paris, where his American parents were art students. Spindly young Chris was nine when he arrived in the U.S., found himself two years ahead of his age group at New York's Browning School. At Harvard he concentrated on fine arts, graduated ('15) cum laude, then enrolled concurrently at Columbia University's School of Architecture and New York's School of Fine and Applied Art. A Harvard classmate talked him into taking a minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned...
Like most other Texas Senators before him. Lyndon Baines Johnson for nine years attended the Southern caucus of senators, was the Southerners' strong choice for Democratic floor leader in 1953. But a couple of years ago, other duties began to keep him busy at caucus time, even as the Southerners were meeting in vital civil rights strategy sessions. This year, to their discomfiture, he opened the 86th Congress with a quick drive to weaken the filibuster-fostering Rule 22, followed up a fortnight later with his own civil rights bill...
...prospects for a double win are dim, for the Tigers bring with them an "Iron Five" quintet which plays almost every minute of every game with great success. Thus far, Princeton has beaten by at least nine points every Ivy opponent it has faced, although its nine wins do not include one over Dartmouth, also 9 and 0 in League play...
...Just nine seconds of power play action after a charging penalty on Dick McLaughlin at 17:30 resulted in the Eagles' first goal. Martin found Bob Leonard standing outside the crease to Pratt's right, and a quick pass and shot netted the goal...
McLaughlin's infraction did not detract from his generally headsup, aggressive performance, one of his best this season. Along with Bud Higginbottom, he contributed to Dave Vietze's tying goal at 14:06 of the second period, on a short backhander from the right; and nine minutes before, he led the team in protest of a goal called on Harry Pratt, contending that the goalie had held the puck long enough for a whistle, and that a B.C. forward jarred it loose with his elbow