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Gregg Riley of Princeton, Bill Taylor of Harvard and Tom Haggerty of Columbia, the League's top runner and scorer, would fill out the mythical Ivy Lackfield. On the line would be ends Dave Usher of Dartmouth and Bob Boyda of Harvard; tackles Darwin Wile of Harvard and Bob Asack of Columbia; guards Bill Swinford of Harvard and Bill Tragakis of Dartmouth; and center Leo Black of Columbia...
...President's statement. By phone and by personal contact almost daily with the White House, he had offered the President, who is untrained in the nuances of nuclear arming, the advice derived from a lifetime of distinguished scientific service (see box). Nobel Prizewinner Seaborg had helped usher in the Atomic Age-and he knows the perils of the atom as well as its promise. He has no illusions about the task that the U.S. faces. Says he of the Russians and their test series: "They were preparing a good deal of the time while we were negotiating in good...
...level at which it becomes intolerably dangerous to human health. At one extreme is Dr. Linus Pauling, Caltech's Nobel Prizewinning chemist, who believes that the fallout danger point was reached when the U.S. exploded the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert in 1945 to usher in the Atomic Age. Pauling estimates that one 50-megaton bomb alone would cause 40,000 babies to be born with physical defects in the next few generations, and 400,000 more defective or still-born babies over the next 6,000 years-or slightly more than one a week...
Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt, the man hired to clean up the political mess that disgraced Chicago schools under the late Mayor Ed Kelly. Willis clinched Hunt's reforms and followed with his own equally decisive ones...
...Senior Class Committee has announced the appointment of this year's Junior Ushers, who will be privileged to attend all of the Commencement Week functions and are supposed to Usher at the Commencement Ceremony. These named...