Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the victories were registered in convincing fashion. Playing at number two, captain Charlie Hamm defeated Ramsay Vehslage (Steve's older brother), 18-17, 15-13, 15-5. Also winning in straight games for the varsity were Pete Lund at number five, John Davis at six, and Tony Lake at nine. Only Lund had much difficulty in his match, downing Dave Brechner...
...knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...Senegal, the Voltaic Republic and the Republics Dahomey and Sudan-seems likely to be the pattern of things to come. The tide now running in Black Africa is toward independence, regional groupings, and a sort of African authoritarianism that pays its respects to Western democratic forms but rests on older habits of strong rule...
...climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep edging up the interest rate. Yet every time he floated a new issue at a higher rate, prices of older issues edged down, making it necessary to put a higher rate on his next offering...
Matter of Contacts. Before he left Harvard Law, Cushing married blonde, blue-eyed Justine Cutting, socialite daughter of Dr. Fulton Cutting of New York, professor of physics at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. His closest friend (and fellow Porcellian), Alexander McFadden, had married Justine's older sister. All through his life Alec Cushing has known important people, and casually made the most of his contacts. Desultorily looking for a job. Cushing ran into his old Groton classmate, Stewart Alsop, through him got an interview with Justice Department Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, who promptly hired...