Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of titans, the 35-lb. weight throw, B.U.'s John Lawlor came through with a heave of 61 ft., 5 3/4 in. to take first place and set meet and Cage marks. Stan Doten of the Crimson, finishing second, set new Harvard and University indoor marks with a 57 ft. 3/4 in. toss. A fine 56 ft., 1 3/4 in. effort by the varsity's Ed Bailey was lost in the commotion...
...seems as though the B.U. meet each December is Record Smashing Night at Briggs Cage. Last year seven meet marks and numerous other standards fell, and this season's clash was even better. The score for the evening: three Harvard records, four University indoor marks, four Cage standards, four varsity meet records, a freshman Cage standard, and three freshman meet marks...
...M.I.T. match was the Crimson's last match until after vacation, when it will face Cornell on Jan. 9. Although the Big Red should present easy opposition, three days later the Crimson will meet its first real test of the new year against a powerful Williams team...
...James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the White House. The bishop: "The President has chosen to refuse . . . to allow this nation of abundance to meet a primary need of countries who want aid towards population control to help avert increasing starvation and misery." In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. R. Norris Wilson, overseas relief director of the National Council of Churches (Protestant), said that if the U.S. refused a request for birth-control assistance overseas...
...SQUARE, by Marguerite Duras (118 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; papperback, $1.45). A nursemaid meets a man in a village square; they talk, while the child plays, of how it is possible to go on living. The man travels about selling five-and-dime notions from a suitcase. He is able to live, he says, because he is without hope; his life will not change, and he does not mind. The girl, on the other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal...