Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1707, when William Cavendish, art-loving second Duke of Devonshire, fell heir to the vast Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire, the family has amassed the biggest private art collection in Britain. Estimated value: more than ?750,000. In recent years, Chatsworth has been open to the public. Families of sightseers have swarmed over the 4,000 expertly landscaped acres and strolled through corridors and state rooms full of works of art, dating back to the 5th century B.C. But last week the British version of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue won a court fight which threatened to break...
Without leaving comfortable Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, Physicist J. F. Nye took a crack at a new kind of Arctic exploration. Using the integrations of abstruse equations, he ranged over Greenland's great icecap, checking the observations of scientists who had made the trip in person. In Nature magazine, Dr. Nye reports his findings. Greenland, he concludes, is probably a mountain range rising from the sea, surrounding a vast, frozen, inland lake...
...Cavendish Cannon, 57, career man (32 years) and able troubleshooter, served as political adviser at the Moscow and Potsdam conferences during World War II, Ambassador to Belgrade (1947-49) during Tito's break with Moscow, then minister in Syria where he tried to ease Moslem resentment over U.S. recognition of Israel: to become Ambassador to Portugal replacing Lincoln MacVeagh, confirmed this week as Ambassador to Spain...
...Delegate Cavendish Cannon began by proposing English, as well as French and Russian, as an official conference language. Vishinsky remarked that most of the participants "loved and understood the Russian language," and by a simple majority vote of his stooges, that was that. Then Vishinsky offered a treaty which assured Russian control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm. The three Western powers protested. Vishinsky snapped: "The door was open for you to come in; the same door is open...