Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.P.E.A.'s hands are tied; it can do nothing to stop this injustice. It is up to Quincy House to act on the illegal affairs of Wednesday afternoon. Granted, Dancer's Image was stripped only of the Kentucky Derby crown, whereas Tarnas would be forced to surrender the Quincy House Pancake Eating championship, But he deserves the punishment. Honest contestants must not be made victims of such trickery...
...seven years the Ivy League squash crown was a permanent Cambridge fixture. From 1961 until last spring, Harvard's intercollegiate record for dual matches was 61-1 and no end of the reign was in sight...
...varsity soccer team stretched its winning streak to fourteen games Saturday afternoon as it defeated Hartwick College, 1-0, on the B-School field. The double overtime victory gave the Crimson booters the NCAA Eastern Regional crown and boosted them into the semifinals for the national championship being played in San Jose, California...
...team left for San Jose early this morning. They will practice tomorrow and Wednesday, and face St. Louis in the first game of the semifinals. Thursday night. If they can get past the number one ranked team in the nation, they will compete for the national crown on Saturday against either Maryland or San Francisco State...
...CENTURY ago this week, the French yacht Aigle, with the Empress Eugenie aboard, led a convoy of 46 vessels south from Port Said to meet Egyptian warships at Ismailia. Fireworks rocketed above the waterway, while 6,000 guests, including the Emperor of Austria and the Crown Prince of Prussia, celebrated the opening of Suez at a huge ball. Said Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps to the Khedive Ismail of Egypt: "Moses ordered the waters of the Red Sea to retire, and they obeyed him. Today, at your command, they return to their former...