Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pivot of this debate: the Moynihan report a much suppressed, much leaked Labor Department document that strips away usual equivocations and exposes the ugly truth about the big city Negro's plight...
...similarity ends there. Princeton has experience -- Thomforde is the only sophomore in the starting five. They also boast incredible balance. Guard Joe Heiser (14.8), forward John Haarlow (13.8), forward and captain Ed Hummer (13.3) and speedy guard Gary Walters (10.8) have divided the scoring almost evenly with the big pivot...
...freshman game, Harvard's Ernie Hardy scored 22 points in a 88-60 win. Hardy stars because he jumps higher than anyone else on the court -- so he can be a pivot man although he's only 6 ft. 4 in. HARVARD SCORING FG F T Kanuth 7 4 18 Gallagher 8 0 16 Royer 5 1 11 Martell 5 0 10 Grate 4 1 9 Waichowski 3 2 8 Dressler 3 1 7 Johnson 2 2 6 Beller 0 4 4 McCullough 2 0 4 Griswold 1 0 2 Markowski...
...first half was a frustrating experience for the Crimson, who dominated the action but couldn't score. Dudley Blodget got off several shots from right wing and Jim Saltonstall showed off the trap-pivot-shoot maneuver he had patented at the center forward position, but with no success...
Died. Leslie L. Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after...