Word: pitt
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Positioning the Lever. It may seem axiomatic that the middle-aged are in control. It was not always so. John Paul Jones was in command of his own ship at 21, and Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister of England at 24. But complex technologies and lengthy professional studies have forced young men to play the waiting game. Also, they have lost what Lexicographer Bergen Evans notes was "the fastest path of advancement-dead men's shoes." In Europe and Asia, the old still hold sway. In the heart of Europe, De Gaulle is in full command...
...between the individual's claim to privacy and the community's need for information. In Britain's common law, the principle of privacy derives from the concept of private property, that "a man's house is his castle." This right was eloquently put by William Pitt: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake-the wind may blow through it-the storms may enter-the rain may enter-but the King of England cannot enter...
Franquemont lost in the semis to Clair Riley of Pitt in overtime. The score in overtime period was 5-1, as Franquemont never seemed to get his attack going. He then dropped a 3-2 decision to Temple's Al Lilly in the consolations...
...different obstacle turned up in another big trimester experiment. A Ford Foundation study of the financial jam at the University of Pittsburgh recently blamed Pitt's trimester system as mainly responsible for doubling operational costs per student. While Pitt retained 70% of its faculty to handle the summer trimester, only one-fourth of its undergraduate enrollment showed up. A study at the Binghamton campus of the State University of New York showed that year-round operation, designed to handle about 50% more students, attracted almost no increase...
...semi-finals, Sterne held a commanding lead over Pitt's Larry O'Loughlin, but let him off the hook and bowed, 10-15, 11-15, 18-16, 15-9, 15-9. At one point, Sterne was leading 2-0 in games and 8-1 in the crucial third game...