Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early history of Harvard football is both strange and exciting. The first recorded account of a Harvard football game is an epic poem entitled "The Battle of the Delta." These verses, attributed to Rev. James C. Richmond 1827, sing mock praise of a fierce football fight between the freshmen and sophomores in the autumn...
Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...
Another minister, the Rev. C. Edward Thompson, 43, of New Kensington, Pa., stood atop the bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...Rev. Mr. Norris has been waiting for action on his TV application because the FCC is trying to deal with charges that a Norris-owned radio station violated the so-called "fairness doctrine." Norris' complaint is that his case has been pending since 1965-though that is not very long in terms of the FCC's decision-making process. After all, the agency has yet to settle a dispute over a certain frequency allotment claimed by Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee...
...help promote Georgia's fledgling woolen industry, he once brought in a herd of sheep to graze in his bank's main lobby. Emphasizing the virtues of teamwork, he has arrived at official meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into...