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The most exciting moments of the afternoon occurred when Harvard's number John Livingood, and Princeton's Seckel stepped up to the teeoff even-up after the first six matches had split to make the score Harvard 3 and Princeton 3. Seckel smashed his six from to within ten feet...

Author: By Ronald G. Strackbein, | Title: GOLFERS DEFEAT BROWN; TIGERS WIN ON 18TH HOLE | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

The Air Force argues that the RS-70 would be a hard target to hit. Even if the Russians built a fighter that could fly 2,000 m.p.h., intercepting an RS-70 covering 30 miles a minute would be a tricky task. One of the RS-70's defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RS-70: BUST OR SUPERPLANE? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Tell 'Em in Medicine Hat. Yet even this approach look's tricky to President John Gardner of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who wants to see reforms developed through "a great variety of channels." such as universities and learned societies. "A central body," he says, "could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Standards for Noah's Ark? | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

No Painful Pioneering. When the multibillion-dollar U.S. Manhattan Project pioneered the art during World War II, there was no such thing as nuclear technology. Starting with only a few scientific guidelines, the physicists had to create new instruments, materials, processes, even a new element: plutonium. They had to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crashing the N Club | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Grownups are always trying to translate the world of children into terms that make sense in their adult world. It's tricky business; for they often wax exceedingly sentimental in the process. Even the most sympathetic attempt at understanding a child's viewpoint must always be a projection of some...

Author: By Kathie Amatnter, | Title: A Summer to Remember | 3/7/1962 | See Source »

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