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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...second Isis boat, which materialized in less than a month from men whose colleges did not send eights to Henley, lost by only three seconds to a well-integrated and highly trained crew. The first Isis boat, representing an incomplete university eight, did equally well against one of the strongest American crews ever to cross the Atlantic...
Rising interest in rugby during the past two years has this fall produced what may be the strongest team ever to don the Crimson stripes. Combining a hard core of returning veterans with new young talent, the squad shows promise of being "considerably better" than last spring's powerful but unlucky fifteen, vice-President Warren Young said last night...
Sparked by the line play of Larry Ekpebu and John Hedreen, the Crimson offense was only slightly less than sensational last Saturday at Amherst. The team scored once, and rightfully should have tallied at least two more goals, against one of the strongest defenses in the East. The line got clear for an unusual number of shots, and only Amherst's good fortune prevented its defeat. "All we need now is a change of luck," Munro said...
...Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected the U.N. to pass this year, is now far from being a sure...