Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressagents' dream. To please them, she barreled her red roadster down Wilshire Boulevard at top speed, accompanied by seven chow dogs chosen to match her auburn hair. She refused to hire a chauffeur, she announced, because she couldn't find one who drove fast enough. She invited the U.S.C. football squad to scrimmage with her on her lawn-at midnight. She privately bathed in imported perfume, publicly pondered whether to succumb to the ardor of Director Victor Fleming or Gary Cooper, until indecision brought on a nervous breakdown. A jilted Yale football player who slashed his wrists...
...this takes time," he notes. How much? He politely declines a guess. It depends on other people and institutions and he refuses to predict how fast they will move. But whenever it is finished, he will go to his drawing boards and create a master plan for the 12 acres. During a six-month period (a time he is willing to estimate because it depends on him and his associates alone), he will determine the number of buildings, their locations, and uses as well as designing open spaces and determining what "support" facilities will go where...
...fast-paced Crimson attack kept Williams bottled up for most of the afternoon and provided ample warning for Ivy teams that Harvard will be a top contender for the League title...
Harvard started fast Saturday, carrying the ball deep into B.U. territory time after time. But inaccurate shooting and several good saves by John Lack, the B. U. goalie, kept the game scoreless until almost the end of the first quarter...
Whites who move into Roxbury for these reasons will move out just as fast...