Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight started as a mere skirmish between television giants maneuvering for position in the uncertain color-TV market. Philco charged that RCA, with some 12,700 patents, was freezing other manufacturers out of color, and in an antitrust suit asked $150 million in treble damages. RCA in rebuttal accused Philco of patent infringements and false attacks on the reliability of RCA's three-gun color tube, demanded $174 million in damages. As years went by, the fight descended into a hopeless tangle of side issues, including a Philco attempt to take over a Philadelphia television station operated...
Harvard followed its usual pattern of opening with an uncertain October and finishing with a magnificent November. Coach John Yovicsin faced what? a totally inexperienced line and a what? a powerful array of backs when he what? opened drills in early September. The 1962 Harvard experience seemed to settle an old football argument: Is a good line or a fine backfield more important to the success of a football team? Operating without the protection of a dependable forward wall during the first part of the season, Harvard's backs looked rather ordinary. When the line had begun to respond...
...have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert the uncertain shopper's eye from the enduring children's classics. But among the 1,600 children's books published in the U.S. last year are a few that are the best in years...
Against this the Yalies have only the uncertain glories of Lieberman & Sons (Lance has left; Jethro and Joseph remain) and the questionable quarterbacking talents of chairman Jon Chapman Rose. As Russin says, "What me lose? Get serious...
Other surprises have marked this 86-year old series--for instance the unprecedented 54 to 0 rout perpetrated by Yale in 1957. This element of the unexpected, always present in a game whose outcome rests traditionally on the uncertain factor of morale, has made the Harvard-Yale rivalry the greatest in college football...