Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, but under oddly different circumstances. Flying in for a 90-minute conference on the labor racketeering mess exposed by the Senate's McClellan committee hearings, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell got red-carpet treatment. With Ike's approval Mitchell will throw the Administration's weight behind: 1) passage of legislation (which Ike has already requested three times) that would require union pension- and welfare-fund statements to be filed with the Justice Department and made public; 2) a move to seek congressional authorization for the Labor Department to make public the 38,000 union financial statements...
Cornell has a vast depth advantage in both the dashes and the broad jump which threatens to offset the Crimson strength in the distance and weight events. Penn offers little more than two fourteen-foot pole vaulters, Carl Shine, the Heptagonal shot put champion, and Andy Wohlgemuth, who tied John de-Kiewiet for the Heptagonal high jump championship...
...Crimson attack showed marked improvement in that game over some of its efforts earlier this season. Both passing and checking were very sharp, and the speed and coordination of the offense were notably better than before. The U.N.H. team, which boasts a veteran midfield line, should have a distinct weight advantage over the varsity, however...
...Soto Firedome, which finished second in the upper-medium class at 56.4464 t.m.p.g. A Dodge Coronet 500 took first place in the low.medium-price class with 55.8920 t.m.p.g., and a Plymouth Belvedere won first place in the low-price field with 52.6211 t.m.p.g. But in straight mileage, regardless of weight, a Ford Fairlane showed the best performance: 22.2534 miles per gallon...
...Bachelor Party, the second hyper-realistic effort of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, is about the stunning weight of responsibility, and the revulsion from it, that a young man feels when his wife becomes pregnant for the first time. His protest against the complications of a home and family that are about to entangle him for life becomes a desire to sleep with a young woman he meets in Greenwich Village on the night of the party...