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...Tigers play Yale on Friday and the Quakers invade on Saturday; on the last day of the season, March 4, Princeton plays at Penn. these games should decide the winner of one of the tightest Ivy races in history...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Penn Should Win Ivy Basketball Title | 2/20/1964 | See Source »

...York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote a letter to congressional leaders supporting a joint resolution to name the proposed National Cultural Center after J.F.K. He motored across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Business & Busyness | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Toronto has a well-balanced attack, strengthened by star Frank Mahavolich, red Kelly and Dave Keon provide the Maple Leafs with a consistent scoring punch. Tim Horton, Carl Brewer, and last season's Rookie of the Year, Kent Douglas, form the tightest defense in the league. Johnny Bower, with assistance from Don Simmons, is nearly as capable as Chicago's Hall. However, Chicago's youth and superior checking ability should keep the Black Hawks ahead of Toronto for the entire season...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/23/1963 | See Source »

...Barber (8-3) and Chuck Estrada (3-1), both now mature at 24 after three big-league season, are pitching brilliantly. Earl Robinson. Boog Powell, and Jim Gentile are hitting consistently. If not spectacularly, and with the addition of Luis Aparicio, the Birds' infield has become the league's tightest...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...book on The Philosophy of Law). The rest of the time, he paints portraits, putters with surveying instruments (he likes maps because "they last for all time"), and receives a stream of visitors. Yet his style of thought owes much less to Thoreau than his style of life. "The tightest of organizations depends on individual creativity," says Hocking. "When that creativity is limited to a few at the top, we have despotism. But organization as such does not crush the individual. Most of us spend time under a master, and if he tells us to do some thing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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