Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the colleges expected to attend the various meetings in the Hotel Commander are M.I.T., Amherst, Oberlin, Carleton, Pennsylvania, and U.C.L.A...
...League football came of age last Saturday, as the League's leading representative, the University of Pennsylvania, gave a traditionally strong Navy eleven a real scare, and then settled for a 22-22 tie. Playing before 26,000 spectators at Franklin Field, the Quakers served notice on their remaining Ivy opponents and the major Eastern powers as well...
California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G. Brown has been wooed like a Spanish infanta for those votes. Every major candidate has gone West to learn "Pat" Brown's intentions, and Brown has parried them all with the answer that he will lead California's delegation to the convention as a favorite...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...
...Next on ICC's docket is the proposed merger between the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, and the proposed five-line New England tie-up of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Rutland Railway...