Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most shocking thing that can be said about the Harvard hockey team is that its record is now five wins, six losses and two ties--not counting the scrimmage with the Russians. With tough matches coming up against Providence, Dartmouth, Northeastern and B.C. you wouldn't bet your last Eisenhower button that the team will finish with a winning record...
...Providence the Crimson might find the going even tougher than it did three weeks ago, for the sextet has had trouble there with Brown. Unless it can reverse the pattern of both the last Friar game and the contest with B.C. Monday night, goalie Harry Pratt will face a tough night...
Bulb-Nosed Hero. Some five months after Tycoon Walter's death, opportunity presented itself to a small restaurant owner in Cap d'Antibes. He was Camille Rayon, a tough, bulb-nosed ex-paratrooper. Resistance hero and fanatical Gaullist. Rayon was approached by a general's aide who begged his help in disposing of a salopard (louse) who "compromises the great national work." Who was the salopard? Answer: Paulo Guillaume, now 22, and concluding his military service in Algeria...
Englishman, Go Now! The tension began when Dr. Hastings Banda, the fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general...
...fast-rising Cook Electric, the Nepal contract is the kind of offbeat challenge on which it thrives. Building its growth on tough jobs that discourage competitors, Cook has pushed its sales from $350,000 in 1939 to $30.1 million in fiscal 1958. Along with sales, it has also built one of the top scientific organizations in the U.S. Says Cook's energetic President Walter C. Hasselhorn: "I don't get excited over assets. I get excited over men, abilities and talent...