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...West Virginia border, Waynesburg College has a tiny, 65-acre campus and a total enrollment of 1,125-399 of them coeds. Also coeducational, also Presbyterian, and only slightly larger (1,366 undergraduates), Westminster is located in New Wilmington, Pa., a farm town of cobblestoned streets and a single stoplight. Neither college tries to compete with the big-time football foundries in recruiting high-school stars; neither pampers its athletes with snap courses or "laundry money." "We give no outright scholarships at all," says Westminster Coach Harold Burry, who also coaches golf and swimming, besides teaching statistics. Says Waynesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: A Lot from the Leftovers | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

GENERAL MOTORS: About 2,400 '66 Suburban trucks in which a seat-belt bolt may cut into a tire; 4,900-plus '67 Pontiacs that may have defective stoplight wiring and turn-signal circuits; '66-'67 series-442 Oldsmobiles with possible brake defects; about 1,600 Chevrolet '67 trucks, with possible wearing of the brake hose against a wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Many Are Called But Fewer Are Defective | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...City, Mo., cops had no trouble following the trail of Earl Dean Thompson, 32, who heaved a hammer through a plate-glass store window, rammed his auto into a parked car, veered off and jumped the curb, struck two trees, drove back onto the street, smashed into a corner stoplight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Over 100 students have so far signed the petition, sponsored by the Student Council of the School. It asks for installation of a stoplight and an island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Students Petition To End Danger at Crossing | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

...world that has long been in too much of a hurry to recognize genuine kindness, humble dignity and courageous truthfulness, Eleanor Roosevelt stands out like a stoplight. Born into a halcyon world, fortified against poverty and bitterness by wealth, social position and a fortunate marriage, the memories of her "shy, ugly duckling years" have no doubt helped her to possess the wonderful empathy she has for peoples everywhere ... I, for one, who have never met or even seen "Mrs. R.," love her dearly; how must others, who have been touched by her, feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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