Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local football squad will be represented by Jim Joslin at fly-half, Ron Eikenberry on the wing, Jim Damis at fullback, and Charlie Eaton and Stan Merkel (next fall's probable fullback) in the scrum. Joe Conzelman of the '54 squad is playing center...
...been awarded the Donald Angier Memorial Trophy for the most improved player on the Harvard hockey team. Robert McVey '58, of Leverett House and Hamden, Conn., has won the John Tudor Memorial Cup for being named the team's most valuable player. Owen played defense and McVey was a wing on this year's Ivy League championship team...
...cries of professed astonishment and dismay rang through Europe. There was talk of "British desertion," and Britain's NATO representative reported that NATO officials were "shocked." A typical French reaction came from the left-wing Franc-Tireur: "England has ceased to be a power. She is becoming an island once more. She is tiptoeing out of a political system built in Europe around NATO." Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury called reliance on atomic arms a "facile policy," and not one for France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from...
Labor Trouble. At this point, Macmillan's fortune took a turn for the better and Gaitskell's for the worse. Opening the Bermuda debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan boldly seized on the left-wing Laborite cry for calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support...
...Crimson continued to press hard, and Mike Reynal, playing on the other wing, was unlucky not to score when he was hit hard as the tried to run behind the posts. New York fell on the loose ball, to bring it back out to the 25-yard line...