Word: squeaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still hobbled by the loss of injured Quarterback Charles Ravenel, Harvard hung on until the last few minutes before it was able to push over a touchdown, intercept a last-minute pass on its own 4-yd. line, to squeak past Columbia, 8-7. ¶ After a frustrating, fumble-filled game, Michigan's Wolverines got off a desperation fourth-quarter pass that caromed off a couple of Northwestern defenders before End Bob Johnson snagged it on the 1-ft. line. It took two more plays for Michigan to cross the goal and beat the Wildcats...
...electorate. It seems to me that we are still very much in the period of jockeying, and that this is an election in which many people will vote with little conviction. Bowles is excessively optimistic in thinking that Kennedy may be elected, but he is much more likely to squeak through than to break through...
...some $125,000 had been collected. The show seemed over, but Frank Sinatra, who walked out with Starlet Prowse, could not resist an encore. In the parking lot, a car jockey drove too close to The Presence. Frank, concerned as ever to prove that he is no pip-squeak, pip-squawked: "Can you fight? You'd better be able to." A scuffle followed, and the attendant was taken to the hospital, but how well Frank can fight is still uncertain: according to the casualty, Frank's bodyguard did most of the work...
...sell his scheme, Saarinen had his longtime friend Charles Eames make a film on the trials of an air passenger, in which one background noise was the squeak of shoes. Washington officials were sold, last week displayed Saarinen's design for the building, to be completed in the spring of 1961. The field itself will occupy 9,800 acres near Chantilly, Va. (23 miles west of Washington), boast two major runways each 2¼ miles long. Saarinen admits to not having solved another major headache for air travelers: the long wait for baggage. "After a careful survey," Saarinen says...