Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Moscow, fearing anti-Communist speeches, sent orders to the Brussels comrades to make nuisances of themselves. When Churchill rose to address an open-air throng of 15,000 in front of the Brussels bourse, about 150 Red hecklers scattered through the crowd tried to drown him out with shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with...
...week's end small gangs of Communist terrorists were getting revenge. In the Calcutta area they bombed an airport and engineering works, killed seven people. The raids were timed as a warning to Prime Minister Pandit Nehru who had announced he would address India's legislative assembly on Communism...
...public-address system rattled off their progress: "They're approaching Cliffside . . . they're through . . . they're stepping along, folks . . . they're at Shady . . . they're riding the curve . . . good in, good out . . . they're at Zig Zag and they don't stay there long . . . they're riding the finish . . . they're down...
...Casey didn't get a chance to tell him. Next time down, the French sled careened high up the wall and was jerked down too suddenly: it crashed against the inside wall, and the public-address system blurted, "81, Shady . . . 81, Shady" (Lake Placid code for "send the ambulance"). The Frenchmen were rushed to the hospital for treatment of their injuries...
Harry R. Mimno, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, will address the first meeting of the Harvard Electronics Club at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Lamont Library Forum Room. Professor Mimno will speak on "Current Wave Propagation Research at Harvard...