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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Varsity halfback Albert F. Cullen, Jr. '60 was among nine candidates from whom Leamy was selected. The winner is the third Harvard athlete to gain the honor...
...recognition of that promise?vague, unstated but everywhere in the air?came the tumults that met the President of the U.S. as he traveled among the masses in 1959's last month. Into that promise the U.S., as represented by Eisenhower, breathed the hope that economic gain could be achieved in peace?and enjoyed outside political bondage...
...bull market last week briefly surged above the historic 678.10 closing high of Aug. 3. But it could not hold the gain, slipped to end the week at 670.69 in the Dow-Jones industrial average. Even with a drop in trading, the 1959 volume was certain to be the heaviest since 1929. Totting up the commissions on the trading, brokers happily paid out the fattest year-end bonuses in many a season. At Paine Webber, the extra checks averaged nearly six weeks' pay; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith reported that its oldest employees were getting better than eight weeks...
...achievement tops last last year's high of five, which the College shared with West Point, and which was matched this year by runner-up Yale. Princeton, with three winners, and West Point and Williams, with two each, were the only other college to gain more than a single Rhodes Scholarship winner...
When Cotter connected after Bill Beckett's pass at 13:18 of the third period it seemed as if the Crimson might gain the upset victory it needed to even its record at 2 and 2. But 38 seconds later Lawlor again teamed with Gaudet and Brown to beat Bland, who had performed admirably in turning away 36 St. Lawrence shots