Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skip Pescosolido has been a strong asset in the dash, taking first in the B.U. meet, and Pat Liles has come from the broad jump pits to become anchor man on the mile relay combination. If weight thrower Jim Doty and miler Dyke Benjamin recover from damaging leg injuries, the varsity may prove it is not dead...
WHAT is news? Webster says simply that it is "matter of interest," a definition at once prosaic yet broad. Much interests TIME'S readers, their normal curiosity whetted by headlines, radio bulletins, TV shows. Sometimes some of the most important news of the week is made by these headlines. Newsmen rarely, if ever, report the news about themselves. Last week one story that shouted out of the front pages and caused repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits...
...will curve downward into the atmosphere. The capsule will hit the thin upper air at almost 18,000 m.p.h.-enough energy of motion to turn capsule and pilot into incandescent vapor unless it is dissipated effectively. To ground watchers, the capsule will flare like a shooting star, leaving a broad track of flame in the sky. The pilot is expected to feel, for a brief period, about 10 g of deceleration...
Such damaging competition would of course raise no objection if waged on a purely private basis. This, however, is a case of state aid being used to boost one private organization at the expense of another. If the Commonwealth is to delegate broad responsibility to a group such as MeBAC, it should make certain that no one theatrical company is given a monopoly on its board such as the Cambridge Drama Festival now holds. This would not only dispel the charges of unfairness that now jeopardize the Arts Center project, but the valuable theatrical experience of a boader range...
...Crimson entrants placed in the individual events. Dave Brahms was left behind in the Farrell 500, won by Basil Ince of Tufts, and dashman Larry Repsher finished last in his heat. The varsity field event men also fared badly against some of the best high jumpers and broad jumpers in the nation...