Word: upset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks with the Boston textbook house, Allyn and Bacon. With Holt, the indirect approach proved more successful. Holt President Alfred C. Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
Soft Approach. Equally upset was 79-year-old Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment...
...brief scuffles erupted during the tense game. Eliot was high for an upset, while Kirkland fought to defend the title they held for the past two years...
...upset by Harvard wasn't impossible, everyone agreed, but the Crimson would need a few breaks. Instead, it was top-seeded Boston University which got the big break--when a Harvard defenseman deflected a pass into his own goal--and the Terriers went on to a routine 6-2 victory at the Boston Arena last night...
McCullough is a dedicated hockey player and respected individual, who took his position seriously. Again it may be only coincidence, but the one pep talk of the hockey season was delivered by McCullough in the bus before the Crimson players pulled their one upset of the year, against Clarkson. Giving experience to another sophomore on a predominantly underclass team is no excuse for benching McCullough, and the deterioration of Kent Parrot's first line, on which McCullough normally winged, into the weak spot of the team has certainly provided no justification...