Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squabbling over him; more than 140 colleges were bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never achieves his tremendous promise, he will easily earn the trust fund that wealthy Kansas alumni are rumored to have put aside as his graduation present...
...busy building tankers as he is drilling wells. For Tidewater Oil, which is also controlled by Getty, he has embarked on a $250 million program to build supertankers to carry Getty Co. oil from the Neutral Zone to its major markets in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S. Last weekend the 53,000-ton S.S. Tidewater slipped down the ways at Saint-Nazaire, France. It was the ninth new tanker for Tidewater since 1954 and the second in the past month. Sixteen more are on order at cut-rate French and Japanese shipyards. The total tonnage for all 25 will...
...flux continued over the weekend. William Rusher, founder of the HYRC, cancelled his scheduled talk with Norman William Smith '58, HYRC presidential hopeful. Rusher did meet with Stalker supporters who attended the Massachusetts Council of Young Republicans, but did not contact members of the special HYRC Law School investigating committee...
...Crimson swimming team recorded its tenth consecutive victory of the season Saturday by defeating Columbia in New York, 68-18. The varsity now finds itself in a familiar position: unbeaten, with only next weekend's Yale meet to go, but with only a very slim chance of preserving this perfect record against the always-powerful Elis...
...Crimson swimming team will meet Columbia in New York tonight in what will be little more than a final tune up for its crucial meeting with Yale next weekend...