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...take third with a strong showing. Pitted against Frank Modine of Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

...first disturbance Thursday night, a group of undergraduates gathered after the 10 p.m. Harkness bells and began shouting, "More, more!" The students began pelting passing cars with snowballs, and, after police had locked the gates to the freshman living area, over 100 men broke out and marched on the Taft Hotel...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Yale Men Protest Police Brutality After Two Wild Riots in 48 Hours | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Taft of Navy won the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:04.9, setting new national Collegiate, Yale pool, and meet records. Jim Stanley, who also broke the previous record for this event, just touched out Joe Koletsky of Yale to take second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Place 2nd After Opening Events | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

Such shocking figures, just compiled, started to pour last week from the office of Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams. With the help of browbeaten Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson (TIME, March 2), Williams proved once again the case he made last session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Subsidized Size | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO, said last week that the affiliation would not support the current Kennedy-Erwin bill without its attached amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, an indication of organized labor's general support for moves to control locals and give the government an opportunity to clean up individual cases of corruption. But in making his statement, Meany made one statement which reflects a great deal of labor's present attitude. Wherever there is corruption in the unions, he said, there will be some other corruption, either in management or in the police...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Labor Pains | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

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