Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago she didn't bother to enroll, and talked-mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in and out of progressive schools, worked as a shipping clerk, disk jockey, even a jingle judge. "It was easy-throw out the dirty ones, and the one that was left was the winner," remembers Mike. He took acting lessons from Broadway's Methodman Lee Strasberg, then in Chicago teamed with...
...most promising solution to the air traffic problem, however, probably lies in SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the air defense radar network being constructed by the Defense Department at a cost of $3 billion. When it is completed, this system reportedly will be able to detect, identify and track all aircraft over the United States. If the CAA can somehow, through cooperation with the SAGE system, place its tracking operations on a semi-automatic basis, a method of effective traffic control will become possible, and the risky "visual flight" operation may be all but eliminated...
...golfers from Penn State, one from Yale, and one from Boston College advanced to the semi-finals in match play yesterday. B.C.'s Charlie Volpone, who has been giving the Crimson a lot of trouble for the past few years, will face Ted Weiss of Yale today in the first semi-final match...
Bill Davidson and John Felus, both from Penn State, will meet in the other semi-final this morning, and the finals will be played on the 6,628-yard course in the afternoon...
...this week, the Houses will be able to function as small New England colleges, fraternity houses, and the other collegiate socal units, instead of intellectual centers. The All-College Spring Weekend will begin on Friday evening and will continue as a three-day, semi-formal party...