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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorry, John," Crimson basketball coach Floyd Wilson said to his opposite number, John Barry of M.I.T., Saturday night after the varsity had inflicted an 84-34 clobbering upon the Engineers at Rockwell Cage. Wilson had reason to be abashed, for his charges had run away with everything but the program concession...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Basketball Players Romp To Easy 84-34 Triumph at M.I.T. | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Jordan will present a lecture, "Ann Radcliffe and Her Times," based upon his research on philanthropy in 17th century England. Ann Radcliffe, a member of this early charitable movement, established the first endowed scholarship fund at Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Will Speak At Formal Farewell | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...press conference, Rockefeller sympathized with Harvard's rejection of NDEA funds, but laid equal stress upon "the realities of the Congressional situation." These statements were widely interpreted as favoring retention of the affidavit, until his recent clarification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockefeller Advocates Repeal of Disclaimer | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...reporter's recommendations on press arrangements for President Eisenhower's imminent visit. Then, to escape distractions in both his office and at home, he slipped off to New Delhi's Ashoka Hotel to finish up a job that, by specific assignment, he had been working upon for weeks, and for which, in a professional sense, he had been preparing ever since his arrival in India two years ago. The job: a TIME cover on Prime Minister Nehru. The challenge: to cope with the opinion of Indira Gandhi and other sophisticated Indians about reportage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Greeks, Huns, Mongols and Persians: from central Asia, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and down onto the Punjab plain. But that would involve the consent of Russia, as well as war with Pakistan. At the moment the Soviet Union is insisting on its friendship to India and is urging restraint upon Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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