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...this first historic case of his tenure, the new Chief Justice of the U.S. brought a well-illustrated attitude of racial tolerance. Earl Warren grew up in Bakersfield, in California's San Joaquin Valley, where segregation was unknown. At the University of California, one of Warren's good friends was a Negro named Walter Gordon ("We used to box a bit together," Gordon recalls). A boxing, wrestling and football star (All-America, 1918), Gordon later coached Warren's son James at the university. In 1944 Warren appointed Gordon a member of the State Adult Authority, which sets...
...manufacturers of airplane equipment, sums up the opportunities for a young engineer in its 1953 brochure: "For the aeronautical research worker and engineer, there is an evergrowing challenge to contribute to the progress of a field firmly established, yet limitless in potentialities. Working daily at the threshhold of the unknown will bring the engineer into many closely related fields. An aircraft increase in size and speed, the role of the engineer and research worker becomes even more important...
Tufts comes to Harvard an "unknown, quantity," having lost its opener to M.I.T., 16 to 13. Pickett fools Tufts is the strongest it's been in four years, "but," he said, "what that means I don't know...
Williams is still something of an unknown quantity to Pickett; the visitors have four sophomores in their line-up and some surprises may be in the offing...
...fine hangs heavy over an unknown Winthrop House thief. The U.S. government, Winthrop House Centry, and Senior Tutor Daniel Cheever are all after...