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During the ten-year tenure of former Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, the University of Pittsburgh gained stature and generated excitement before tailspinning into insolvency (TIME, July 2, 1965). Last week Pitt pinned its hopes for regaining level flight on one of the sharpest intellects in the U.S. Air Force. The university's trustees named Colonel Wesley W. Posvar, 41, founding chairman of the Air Force Academy's political science department, as new chancellor, effective June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Pilot for Pitt | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

Columbia opened with a fizzle, losing to City College of New York, which embarrassed Ivy League fans in the metropolitan area. But the team has since defeated Pitt and Indiana State to take the Steel Bowl, and tipped George Washington in double overtime. But Harvard was crushed by third-ranked North Carolina...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Five Tackles Lions in Season Opener | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...Beef Gang. This year, Beban is an inch taller (at 6 ft. 1 in.), 12 Ibs. heavier (at 195 Ibs.), and every bit as dangerous. Against Pitt, he scored two touchdowns on runs of 1 and 9 yds.; against Syracuse, he plunged 4 yds. for one score, set up another with a 47-yd. pass, and threw 13 yds. for a third. Against Missouri last week, he completed eleven out of 20 passes, for 204 yds. Even so, he is hardly a one-man team. Halfback Farr is a legitimate All-America candidate who has aver aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: They're Only No. 2 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN DEFENSE OF PRIVACY | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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