Word: veteran
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...replaced by Coach Fred Haney, who led the lackluster, last-place Pirates of 1953-55. ¶On Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, N.Y., Cornell's brilliant eight-man crew easily won the 54th Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta, began to point for the Olympic tryouts on June 28 and the veteran Navy crew (now the Admirals) that won the Olympics in 1952. Meanwhile, Yale, another Olympic threat, rowed merrily down the Thames at New London, Conn, to defeat ancient rival Harvard for the 54th time in 104 meetings. ¶In the season's biggest trade, the seventh-place New York...
...first time in the history of the Italian Communist Party, Leader Palmiro Togliatti was caustically critical of the Moscow leadership, described Khrushchev's attack as "brutal and dangerous." Said another veteran Italian Red: "Khrushchev's speech was not Marxism ... it was a personal tirade intended to relieve his feelings after years of bullying." As criticism grew, Togliatti announced an extraordinary series of regional conferences for reorientation of his huge party (2,130,000 members). He told the extraordinary meeting of the 110-man Central Committee that the word must be spread gently: Italian Reds would resent having been...
Died. Margaret Wycherly, 74, veteran British-born actress of stage (Jane Clegg, Tobacco Road) and screen (Sergeant York); in Manhattan...
...Pusey's first official acts as President was to authorize the preparation of a report covering all phases of Harvard alumni activity. When the report was presented, veteran Yard officials were as amazed as the President to discover that the University was spending $850,000 a year on the alumni affairs of the College and the various graduate schools. According to Milton Katz '27, now professor of Law and chief author of the report. "This was probably the first time that anyone sat down and actually totaled up what was going...
...President of the University, already a veteran recipient of threatening protests, is himself taking the lead in drawing the alumni closer to the College and, in fact, giving them more influence over the Administration. Is this not just what the "crackpots" want...