Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the Association began to function, a third issue split the membership: whether to join the IUS. NSA sent a representative, William Ellis '46, to Prague, charged with 13 conditions under which NSA would join IUS. While the negotiations were going on the Communist coup d'etat took place, and the IUS refused to take a stand against the new government for jailing anti-Communist student leaders and professors. Ellis broke off negotiations, resigned from the Prague Secretariat, and denounced IUS's betrayal of student liberties...
Twice more in the closing moments the varsity drove deep into opposition territory, only to be thwarted by the determined Big Red line.Crimson halfback LARRY REPSHER is stopped by Cornell's JOHN SANDUSKY (86) after a short gain over left tackle. LYMAN BEGGS (41) charges up for the coup de grace as JON CHRISTIANSON (53) and DAVE CAPPIELLO (80) look...
Luders' coup came just as the Cruising Club rule committee was sitting down to the thankless task of considering revisions of the formula. Loudest gripe is against the designers' most successful postwar innovation-short, wide-beamed center-boarders that not only run faster off the wind but also drive relatively well into the wind matched against their deep-keeled rivals, who have to give them time under the formula. Most famous of these boats is Olin Stephens' Finisterre, which all but revolutionized ocean racing by winning the Bermuda race...
...secretary of an advisory committee to strengthen U.S. loan agencies. Brand helped draft the law that expanded the Export-Import Bank's role and lending authority, made it autonomous under a board of directors. He moved into the Eximbank as a director. In 1956 Brand performed his biggest coup by persuading a group of Government agencies and eleven private banks to grant an unprecedented $329 million loan to help stabilize the Argentine economy after Peron's fall...
...Been appointed to the Red-led National Front Central Action Committee immediately after the 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia, which put the minority Communists in control of the land...