Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first event of the 34th NCAA Championships here last night. Michigan's Fritz Myers pulled even with the Elis' Ray Ellison at the three-quarters mark in the 1500-meter freestyle, then stroked on to upset the Eastern champion in 19:04.8. This ties the Tar Heel Pool record set in 1949 by N. Heusner of North-western...
Grays Hall edged Straus South and Matthews South in the finals of the freshman intramural swimming meet last night. Grays, with 32 points, topped a pack of 11 teams competing at the I.A.B. pool...
...mechanic to pay for his mechanical engineering studies at the University of the Philippines. He fought the Japanese as a guerrilla, at war's end commanded an army of 10,000 men-but was especially proud of his U.S. Army rank as a captain in a motor pool. Elected to the Philippine Congress, he battled his own Liberal Party when it indulged politics and corruption in the army, goaded the politicos so much that in 1950 President Elpidio Quirino made him Secretary of Defense...
...version. "Troops of the UNEF opened fire on Moushref when he emerged from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces of the U.N. had fired "at civilian inhabitants," Nasser announced that Egypt would "assume its responsibilities in the strip immediately." He appointed Major...
...turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant staffers leaves of absence...