Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine Crimson runners crossed the finish line before B.U. could place even one man, as the varsity achieved the perfect score (in cross country...
...Ducktail. Worldly-wise FBI men were skeptical about the eight-year-old's story: the memory seemed too perfect, the details too complete. How could they be sure he was telling the truth? If they wanted to check his story, Lee Crary replied, all they had to do was pick up the young, blond (ducktail haircut) fellow driving a Chevrolet. With no hesitation Lee rattled off the license number...
Prominent among the limited inflationists is Harvard's Professor Sumner H. Slichter. The U.S. has had a rising price and wage level almost from its infancy, he argues, simply because an expanding economy steadily bid up the prices of labor and materials. Both sides agree that in a perfectly run economic world it might be possible to avoid inflation if wage rates, labor productivity and profits all rose together in direct proportion to output. But even the classic economists foresee no such perfect world. Thus, if the U.S. is to continue to expand, the prices of labor and materials...
...admirably supported by an unusually talented cast. Cecil Parker and Michael Gough hilariously lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...
...freshman cross country squad began its season with a near-perfect performance yesterday afternoon as it defeated Andover, 15-48, at Andover. A score of 15-50 constitutes a "shutout" in cross country...