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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday chronicled the first meeting of Harvard and Brown in football. In many ways it was the most satisfactory game of the season, not because Harvard made her this year's record in number of points won, but because the eleven was given an excellent test of its defensive work." So said the CRIMSON on Oct. 30, 1893, after the varsity had crushed the Bruins, 58 to 0, in the series inaugural...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Leads, 42--14, In Rivalry With Brown | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...Fuller looks with a trace of unbelief on all that has happened. "I used the problem more seriously than the articles indicate," he says. Fuller was explaining the use of what he calls the "If one can do it, all can do it" test for certain actions, applying it first to the catcher's tactics and then to the stratagem of fake injuries...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

...Kashmir, all India suddenly became aware that Red China was not simply guilty of "overenthusiastic pursuit of Tibetan refugees" (as one Indian official had first surmised), but was embarked on a systematic quarrel with India, and not particularly keen for negotiation. The prospect loomed that Red China wanted a test of strength with its No. 1 rival in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Dragon's Breath | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin at the Chrysler plant in Detroit; they watched her engine-thrust (equal to 20 F-86 jet fighters) test at the Rocketdyne plant in Southern California. Artfully, accurately, never wasting a frame, they were on hand at Cape Canaveral on July 16, when the countdown began for the firing of the finished missile. Just 5½ seconds after Juno II rose from her launching pad, she tilted crazily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Best Foot Forward | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Segre, an associate of the great Enrico Fermi, was born in Tivoli, Italy. Like Fermi, he came to the U.S. before World War II because of disgust with Italian Fascism. Both he and Dr. Chamberlain worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and Chamberlain helped explode the first test bomb at Alamogordo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1959 Nobelmen | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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