Word: penn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROXY FIGHT to oust Penn-Texas Boss Leopold Silberstein will be attempted by three directors: Robert C. Finkelstein and Wallace S. Whittaker, who were elected by anti-Silberstein rebels last year, and Major General Charles T. Lanham, onetime Silberstein ally. They are trying to win over three neutral directors who swing power balance on eleven-man board...
...like many another city, Philadelphia in its ambitious urban-renewal program (e.g., rehabilitation of downtown shops, banks, hotels; 14-acre Penn Center replacing the dowdy Broad St. railroad station) is faced with a shaky question mark that cannot be erased with just so many tons of steel and concrete. It is a human problem: more and more of Philadelphia's white families are moving out of the city, leaving behind a growing population of low-income Negro families. And the problem of balancing the population becomes more and more difficult because the Negroes are blocked from moving...
Second place in the Ivy League will be on the line this weekend when the Crimson quintet meets Princeton on the Tigers' home court tonight and then travels to Philadelphia on Saturday to challenge Penn. The varsity, underdog in both games, must win one of the two to maintain its better than .500 record in League play and to stay in contention for second place...
Princeton and Penn, both with a 6-3 record, currently control second position. The Crimson, tied with Yale, is directly behind with a 5-4 record. Each team has five League games remaining and is rated little chance of overtaking first-place Dartmouth, which has lost only to the Elis and has won eight games...
...undefeated swimming squad faces the midshipmen of Navy Saturday night at Annapolis. The swimmers have downed Army, M.I.T. and Penn. The two service teams are in the same swimming league as the eight Ivy League schools...