Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both of these former Soviet planning chiefs, the one now ambassador to East Germany and the other manager of a factory on the Volga, stepped to the rostrum to grovel. Pervukhin tried to hold back a bit: "Though I was unable to discern the anti-party group's plans, when the group openly raised the question of changing the leadership, I did not agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev...
...slot. Last week Executive Editor George Cornish-the same man who fired Woodward for "Whitey" Reid in 1948-fired Sports Editor Cooke. His successor: Rufus Stanley Woodward (Amherst '17). After leaving the Trib in '48, Woodward had drifted through a series of jobs, freelanced a bit, wound up as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger. Aging (63), quieting (he hasn't kicked a shin in years), the Coach found the sudden vindication almost too much to take-and maybe a little late. "I just feel sort of sunk," he said, getting ready to go back...
...Scary." Times have changed since the days when C.K. helped sweep California government free of railroad domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans...
...story will be quite a bit different this afternoon on the hot Navy courts against a rugged and tenacious Middie team. Always dangerous on their home courts, Navy will probably pose the season's major threat to an undefeated season for the Crimson...
...instituted which offer a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today." Such courses would unquestionably be very beneficial for a student with some touch of scientific curiosity, but it is a bit difficult to see just why they would give this idea of scientific discipline (as a molding force in modern life) any better than Nat. Sci. 10 does...