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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Set back in tackle and soccer, Winthrop House galloped away with the touch football title. Averaging more than 50 points per game, the Puritans swept undefeated through an eight game schedule. The champions used a "basketball" offense to pass over and around Adams and Kirkland for 71-19 and 70-18 victories...
...chair in geography could be set up and financed in part by the Department of History. There is precedent for such an arrangement. Henry C. Darby, noted English geographer, taught a course at the University last year stressing the interrelation of geography and English historical development...
...Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under continuous review the progress of the Polaris missile program, an administrative task rivaling the Manhattan Project in complexity. Thanks largely to PERT, the Polaris missile is programed to be operational in late 1960, two years ahead of schedule...
...Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting machine's ability to organize them. Holding that management analysts should continuously analyze themselves, Allen set up a think department to do nothing but figure out new services the firm could offer to an ever widening circle of clients...
...cerebral hemorrhage; in West Cornwall. Conn. North Carolina-born George Denny, associate director of the League of Political Education, conceived the Town Meeting program after being told by a neighbor that he would never listen to a fireside chat because he could not stand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Denny set up Town Meeting as a forum where both sides of any issue could be heard, umpired such hagglers as Harold Ickes and No Foreign Wars Committee Chairman Verne Marshall...