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Thus ended Jordan's seven-year tenure as Harvard's twentieth head coach, a term in which his teams compiled a record of 24 wins, 31 losses, and 3 ties. While in 1956 the Crimson eleven had only a 2 and 6 record, three of his other squads had winning records, and the 1954 team beat Yale and Princeton for the first time since 1941. He is the third straight football coach released before the expiration of his agreement with the University...
When Publisher Atkinson died in 1948, he left the paper to a charitable foundation that he had set up to avoid paying crippling inheritance taxes. To comply with an Ontario law that sets a seven-year limit on ownership of businesses by philanthropic groups, the paper technically should have been put up for sale last April. But when Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees...
...other respects, however. Intelligent, mature, and serious-minded, she apparently takes completely in her stride the fact that she is now a nationally-known musical comedy star, whereas three years ago this summer she was just finishing her first year of drama school in Pittsburgh. That summer Shirley went to New York on a visit, was persuaded to audition for a theatrical agent, and within a week had a seven-year contract with Rodgers and Hammerstein. She never went back to drama school...
...bold, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick; in Paris, he chatted with Old Friend Pierre MendesFrance, lunched at the home of Bank of France Governor Wilfred Baumgartner. Flying on to Iran, Banker Black talked about accelerating Iran's seven-year, $930 million development program which is paid for by oil royalties. Since oil revenues are low, Black was working out a $32.5 million loan to get things rolling. This week Black moved on to Saudi Ara bia, where oil money is often frittered rather than being spent on economic projects...
...level of education in the Soviet Union is high, according to Malia. Virtually every town has a so-called seven-year school, and at present plans are being made to make a ten-year school compulsory. The Russian child starts his formal education at the age of seven...