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Judge Rizley fined Mrs. Mary Knowles, 46, the Plymouth Meeting, Pa. librarian who was found guilty of contempt of Congress (TIME, Jan. 21), $500 and sentenced her to 120 days in jail-longest term ever handed a woman for contempt of Congress...
...Yale varsity hockey team lost to Dartmouth Thursday night, 8 to 1, thereby drawing even with Princeton in the race for the season's longest losing streak. Both teams have now been beaten ten straight times...
...longest-touted and best-advertised problem facing the 85th Congress was a promised drive in the Senate for civil-rights legislation. Well aware that the Democrats had lost large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats...
...most severe shortage of all was in steel, caused by the longest steel strike since 1952 (10 million tons lost) and record spending ($44 billion) for new buildings. Everywhere, from Manhattan's jagged skyline to San Francisco's rolling hills, the steel skeletons of new skyscrapers were etched against the sky. And at year's end the industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis...
...victory was the Crimson's second straight Ivy League win, and its fourth consecutive win of the year. By winning last night the team posted its longest season-opening streak since 1945, when it won its first six games. The 92-point mark, reached by Bob Barnett's last second tap-in, was only a point short of the I.A.B. record, and marked the most points the Crimson has ever achieved in a League game...