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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team has lost seven in a row, you cannot help thinking that something has got to go wrong. It looked for a while like foul trouble might destroy Harvard's domination late in the game, as Gallagher, Kanuth, and Grate all picked up their fourth personal fouls within the span of 90 seconds...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Five Tops Lions, 82-73, For First Victory of Ivy Season | 2/11/1967 | See Source »

...span of 40 years, Sir Harold Nicolson wrote 28 books of history (The Congress of Vienna), biography (King George V), fiction (Sweet Waters), essays (Good Behavior) and travelogues (Journey to Java), as well as countless book reviews and speeches. But nothing that Sir Harold has ever produced is so likely to win him a permanent place in British letters as this volume culled by his younger son from his personal notes and correspondence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Cultivated Mind | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...Francisco and settled in Redding, he performed many operations inside patients' skulls. Some of the operations were emergency procedures on accident victims, but all were serious enough to require the attendance of two neurosurgeons. Dr. Stevenson, however, was the only neurosurgeon between Sacramento and Medford, Ore., a span of 275 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors: Who May Assist a Surgeon? | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Freedom Square, the LEGATION signs will be taken down as quickly as EMBASSY signs can be found. In both Communist capitals, U.S. ambassadors will replace lesser-ranked envoys. Thus, in agreeing with Bulgaria and Hungary to exchange ambassadors and upgrade legations to embassies, Lyndon Johnson laid in place another span of roadbed for the ever-lengthening "bridges across the gulf" that he is attempting to build between the U.S. and the Communist countries of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Overtures to the East | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Penn finished the season with a 2-7 record, which earned them the bottom slot in the Ivy League. As it turned out, that loss was the only one Harvard sustained against Penn in a seven-year span...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Upset Loss to Penn in '63 Was Yovicsin's 'Bitterest' | 10/27/1966 | See Source »

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