Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newspaper Editors. He has dates to confer with Vice President Nixon and to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, will go on to see the press in New York and make a speech before the Harvard Law School Forum. A compulsive explainer. Castro apparently expects to win U.S. sympathy by candor and eloquence-despite his growing record of blaming Cuba's troubles on that "bad neighbor,'' the U.S., and of choosing neutralism as Cuba's cold-war course...
...With lanky (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell mopping up the backboards, the Boston Celtics crushed the Minneapolis Lakers in four straight games to win the playoffs of the National Basketball Association, justify the claim of winning Coach Red Auerbach that they were "the greatest team in the history of the sport...
...reason for the Crimson's relatively easy win was that Cornell had the same problem as Coolidge in choosing which boat was to row as varsity, but evidently chose wrong. The result was to make the junior varsity race a tight contest every foot...
...deeply gashed by Phil Tarasovic, kicked to the Blue 25, where forwards Albie Cullen and Bill Morse dribbled towards the goal. Fullback Dick O'Neill, charging up from behind, made the try following which Graham Russell converted. It was a discouraging loss, but the Crimson showed it can still win the league title...
Dyke Benjamin led off the varsity's triumph with an excellent 4:15.6 win over Army's Dick Healy in the mile. Less than an hour later, he came back to take the two-mile, leaving Cadet Dick Greene far behind and setting a new Harvard and Shea Stadium record of 9:08.5. Benjamin's mark was nearly 13 seconds faster than Pete Reider's former University standard, and it establishes him as perhaps the leading distance runner in this part of the country...