Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solid Achievements. They went home with a stack of business cards from people who were sufficiently impressed to offer to help get jobs for prisoners seeking parole (a man cannot get a parole unless he first has some assurance of a job). Such constructive energy is bringing solid achievements. A committee of the Colorado state legislature has just announced that it will soon propose two laws to help the convicts. One will reform parole procedures; the other will permit indeterminate sentences so that a prisoner can win an early release if he shows signs of rehabilitation. Warden Patterson says that...
...meters. They ran one-two at last month's Olympic trials, and Farrell's time of 1 min. 46.5 sec. should be enough to win if he can match it at Mexico City. George Young, a skinny, crew-cut schoolteacher from Arizona, is a solid threat to become the U.S.'s first gold-medal winner in the steeplechase since 1952. Bill Toomey, a 195-lb. muscleman from Santa Barbara, Calif., is the only man in the world who has scored more than 8,200 points in the grueling, ten-event decathlon this year...
...victory over Tufts, the Harvard soccer team goes to Storrs today to battle a potentially potent University of Connecticut team. UConn is generally in the thick of the fight for an NCAA bid, and, off a narrow loss to last year's New England champion, Vermont, figures to be solid again...
Unfortunately. UConn plays Saturday games at 10:30 a.m., so the Harvard squad will leave Cambridge at dawn for the two hour trip to the Storrs campus. Unless the defense holds solid, it might be a long ride back...
...game, rated a tossup, will pit the Crusaders' dangerous backfield against Harvard's solid defense but questionable offense...