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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kentucky's awesome margin against a team ranked seventh in the country (before the game) was the result of rigidly disciplined practice sessions where players speak only when spoken to. Explains Taskmaster Rupp: "Practice is the same as chemistry class. Everybody pays strict attention." While most coaches chart players' shots at the basket during games, Rupp goes further: he has assistants busy jotting down every shot his players make in practice. One of Rupp's favorite maxims: "Shooting is to basketball what putting is to golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready & Loaded | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...four, who declared they had planned the escapade since they were freshmen, requested that their names not be printed because they "feared the strict publicity rules." at the 'Cliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Annex Seniors Don Gray Flannels, Defy Ban on Girls to Crash Eliot's Play | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Within Limits | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...There wasn't even a skeleton organization around to enforce full controls.* But by this week there was such a round of price and wage boosts that the urge to impose across-the-board controls -whether it made strict economic sense or not-had become almost irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irresistible Urge? | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: After the Shock | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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