Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only could Debrett watchers read for the first time the biographies of Scottish clan chiefs,* but in a special introductory article by Editor P. W. Montague-Smith they learned some new facts about Queen Elizabeth II. Everybody knows that the Queen is descended from William the Conqueror, who defeated Saxon King Harold at Hastings just 900 years ago this October. What Montague-Smith has discovered, though, is that Elizabeth also carries the blood of Harold in her veins...
...Harvard Water Polo Club, wet off a 2-4 season, has elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...
...University records were set by the Crimson's two relay teams. The 440 yard relay team (Bobby Lee, Joe Smith Andy Cahners and Wayse Andersen) finished third to Navy and Army in 47.3 seconds. The mile relay team (Dave McKelvey Trey Burns Jeff Hevelle and Sam Robinson) was nipped at the time by Navy but managed a fine 141 time Robinson ran the anchor leg in a sparkling 47.3 seconds...
...radar-domed earth science building, Calder's sculpture has both primitive power and modern grace. Its presence is courtesy of Eugene McDermott, a director of Texas Instruments Inc., who was a college classmate of Calder. But the selection came only after a number of sculptors-including David Smith, Richard Lippold and Jean Arp -were considered. Scholars at M.I.T. tested the Calder design in a wind tunnel, then they buried beneath it a time capsule that included a Betty Crocker cookbook, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, 1964 coins, M.I.T. memorabilia, and a copy of TIME...
Fearing that their own traditional 15% commission might be undercut, the National Association of Life Underwriters, speaking through Vice President Carney Smith, protests that the card plan has already "eroded the agents' market tremendously." To keep the card game from spreading, agents' groups have threatened such credit-offering chains as Sheraton Hotels and the May Co. with boycotts. They have also pushed anti-credit-card insurance bills through the legislatures in New Hampshire and Florida...