Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerously leaking faucet in Somerville. THIS MAN WAS PREVENTED FROM GETTING TO HIS PLACE OF WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse during the period of student pranks and caused the basement of a two-family house to be FLOODED BY THREE FEET OF BELMONT SPRINGS WATER...
Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
Having built what they considered a sufficiently strong government and army in North Korea, the Russians announced that they would pull out all their troops by the end of the year (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week the U.S. began to follow the Russian lead. The 7th Infantry Division was ordered from Korea to Japan...
...string of shifts set off by the 7th's move would seriously weaken the U.S. position, not only in Korea but in all East Asia. In Japan the 7th would relieve the crack nth Airborne Division. The 11th would move back to the U.S. Barely three weeks after Douglas MacArthur's urgent plea for reinforcements (TIME, Dec. 20), the War Department was taking away from him 12,000 of his best troops...
...play features 7th century situations in modern settings, modern dress by Bonwit Teller, a modern musical backdrop by Nicholas Van Slyck 2G, and the latest quotes from T. S. Eliot '10 in place of Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling...