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...when it celebrated its 100th birthday as College of the Pacific, the oldest college in California was the model of a football foundry. For years, Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg had built teams that trounced the mighty universities of Chicago and California. By 1950, having climbed to tenth in the nation, Methodist-founded Pacific had progressed from stadiums seating 10,000 to 20,000 to 35,000-and into academic oblivion...
...Dating Year 1 from Dec. 2, 1942, when the first controlled atomic chain reaction was achieved by Enrico Fermi and his associates in the celebrated squash court beneath the grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 from a steel tower at Alamagordo...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was 96 when he appeared on Oct. 26, 1958. Runner-up: Grandma Moses...
...began on a chill, grey afternoon 20 years ago. The site was a laboratory in a squash court beneath the stands of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field Stadium. Gathered there was a team of scientists and engineers headed by Enrico Fermi, a refugee from Mussolini's Italy. They had finished building history's first nuclear reactor. Now they were using it to produce the first controlled nuclear reaction...
...still might have become a good man." "I quit running at 95." "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant." Who said which? These quotes, out of this week's TIME, were said (but not in the same order) by Jawaharlal Nehru, Pavel Popovich, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Matthew J. Culligan, Douglas MacArthur, Niccoló Tucci and Dwight Eisenhower. One way to find out is to try to match the quote with the speaker. Another way is to read this week's TIME...