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...evening session. Among my recent predecessors, beginning with John Foster Dulles, only one, Henry Kissinger, had been subjected to more than a day of hearings. On Jan. 21, the day after the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan, the Senate voted, 93 to 6, to confirm my nomination as the 59th Secretary of State...
...Crimson dropped nine spots from last year's fourth-place finish, the best ever by an Ivy school. Kate Wiley, who earned All-America honors by placing seventh last year, fell to 59th place with a time of 17:52.4 over the 5000-meter course. Jenny Stricker, who also earned All-America honors last year for Harvard, has taken a year off to train for the Olympics...
Said Frederick G. Lieb, sage baseball writer: "It is doubtful if anyone in that crowd will ever live to see another baseball player hit his 60th home run in a 154-game season. I saw Ruth hit his 59th in 1921 and never thought I would score the game in which that record would be broken...
Harvard tied Stanford for second place with nine recipients each in the Foundation's 59th annual competition. Cornell was awarded the most, receiving 11. Two hundred ninety-two recipients were chosen from among 3571 applicants...
...late. As Angels lurched toward extinction, it kept stumbling into new dificulties. ABC rescheduled it against tougher competition on Sunday nights (Archie Bunker's Place and CHiPS), a test that sent its ratings plunging one week to 59th out of 65 shows. There were threats of litigation over the division of profits. With the coming of a new political era, the Moral Majority began trumpeting charges of immorality on the air waves. And Jaclyn Smith, who has won a much publicized new role playing Jacqueline Onassis, announced that she too would depart when the season ended. The dying show...