Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Integration of the sexes at Harvard will move one step closer this afternoon when the Winthrop House crew comes to grips with eight oarswomen from Smith College at 2:30 p.m. on the Charles River...
Because of a Smith regulation forbiding direct competition with male schools, the men from Winthrop "will probably row with them, rather than against them." Each shell will consist of four Puritans and four Sophians. If the two schools should race against each other, however, "there is no doubt who would lose. It's brain over brawn in this sport," according to referee Blake Dennison...
...Smith, playing ninth, beat Tim Scarf, 7-5, 6-0, while Chute, at number ten, outlasted Toby Worth, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Princeton picked up its only singles wins at seven and eight, where John Cartier beat Jim Cameron, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, and Kit Huttig used his tremendous overhead shot to defeat Laurie Pratt...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...
...this new competition has raised the question of how the U.S. can prevent itself from being priced out of world markets. Inland Steel's Smith is not alone in asking how much longer the U.S. can afford the contrast between the $3.03 average U.S. steel wage and, according to latest available figures, the 89? average for Luxembourg, the 78? average for Belgium, the 68? average for West Germany, or the 41? for Japan. One obvious but unlikely solution is for foreign countries to raise wages faster, share more of the benefits of rising productivity with their workers...