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...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
...thirds years, despite the fact that during practices he would consistently outplay many of those who started before him. Finally, Hannemann was given a chance during the latter stages of this season, and he responded with some of the best basketball displayed by any Crimson performer during this, the longest of many long winters of discontent, on the fourth floor...
Well, it looks like the Harvard basketball team has finally found itself. With a sweep of Cornell and Columbia at the IAB last weekend, the cagers not only equal ed their longest winning streak of the season, but they also upped their record to a 8-15 (not bad, huh), a mark which includes a glittering 3-8 showing in the powerhouse Ivy League, and moved an entire half game ahead of Yale and into seventh place in the Ivy standings...
...move the projected volumes of coal, railroad lines must buy thousands of new hopper cars and locomotives and upgrade roadbeds and tracks. Rather than wait, several consortiums of mining companies have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument is before...
Hunt Block popped his longest jump of the year to win the long jump at 23 ft. 3 1/2 in. Breaking his own meet record of 6 ft. 10 1/4 in., tri-captain Mel Embree soared to victory in the high jump at 7 ft.-even, and Dan Sullivan (6-8) nabbed second for the Crimson...