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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, what Harvard coach Floyd Wilson fears more than anything else is the polish of this Yale five. It will not make the same mistakes that the slower, rougher Princeton five made. Its big men, Lee, Downs, and Robinson, are tricky and smooth, versatile ball players, and will be hard to stop...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Varsity to Oppose Favored Yale Five In Contest Tonight | 3/2/1957 | See Source »

...broadcasts that brought Negro teachers into white classrooms and white teachers into Negro classrooms via TV. In 1953 teachers began holding a series of interracial conferences on the problems that integration would produce. Finally, after opening day in September 1954, the Washington Daily News reported: SCHOOL INTEGRATION GETS SMOOTH START...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miracle on the Potomac | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...Eisenhower is probably the most insistent member of the Republican Party in urging smooth integration. But he has allowed his excellent Civil Rights Bill to be pigeon-holed in the Senate. He insists on remaining behind the scenes, perhaps from fear of tarnishing the national father image. Cautious backing of federal legislation is just fine, but the President's statement during the last campaign to the effect that it didn't matter whether he backed the Supreme Court decision or not because it was the decision of the highest court in the nation is carrying the noncommital approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Integration | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson gets past the Princeton match, it can look forward to a fairly smooth schedule until the finals with Yale. It is quite possible that the contest against the Elis on March 2 will decide both the Eastern and Ivy titles, if Navy and Yale can go through the remainder of the season undefeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Overpowers Penn, 9-0, Without Loss of Single Game | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

...smooth tactics that had won Ken the U.S. title and made him a Davis Cup hero were as polished as ever. But all Rosewall did was set things up so that Pancho could move in for the kill. Behind his big serve, Pancho's long legs and long reach always got him to the net in time to put the ball away. Little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ken was forever trapped halfway, pecked to death by shots that snicked at his feet. Pancho covered the court with that extra grace that made everything work, and at both Wellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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