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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the centuries there have been six London Bridges; the one that Mc Culloch bought is only the latest to follow the nursery rhyme and come "falling down." The first span to have its destruction commemorated in song was wrecked in a raid by Olaf the Norwegian in 1014. London decided a year ago to replace the present bridge because it was not only too small to accommodate today's traffic, but was sinking into the riverbed at a rate of 1 in. every eight years. Plans for a new bridge on the old site are already under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: London Bridge's Home on the Range | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...have felt the loss of Finholt," said Harrington. (A strong rebounder, Finholt transfered to St, Olaf College in Minnesota after the first semester.) Harrington was quite pleased with the rebounding of his charges yesterday, lauding particularly Janczewski, Kane, and 6-8 center George Yates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Down Tufts; Janczewski Scores 26 | 2/27/1968 | See Source »

Collins made his debut as a starter Saturday night, replacing Dave Finholt. Finholt, who has performed capably all season, is transferring to St. Olaf College in Minnesota at the end of this semester. Coach Harrington used him sparingly against M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Hoopsters Down M.I.T.; Take on Dartmouth Frosh Tonight | 1/16/1968 | See Source »

...Taiwan has a standing offer of an assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter ego of Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, a former Republican national committee chairman (1948-49) and one of the canniest, guttiest infighters on either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man from T'ang | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...appointment of Christ-Janer adds to the growing reputation of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Beloit, Carleton, Coe, Cornell, Grinnell, Knox, Lawrence, Monmouth, Ripon and St. Olaf) as a breeding ground for major-university presidents. In 1964, Grinnell's Howard Bowen stepped up to the University of Iowa, while Lawrence has lost two former presidents to other and larger institutions-Nathan Pusey to Harvard and Douglas Knight to Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: A Different Kind of Methodist for Boston U. | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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