Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Button, the College's only current Olympic titleholder, will defend the championship he won in 192 today, when the Men's Figure Skating competition opens at Oslo, Norway. He will skate compulsory figures today...
Dick Button (above) the only Harvard entry, is strongly favored to successfully defend his figure skating championship later in the week, and walk off with the Olympic title for the second straight time...
...other hand, Vincent's testimony bogged down when he tried to defend U.S. China policy in the '40s. As chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs, he had sponsored his good friend Owen Lattimore as a State Department consultant. Now, he admitted, he knew better. Confronted with some of Lattimore's statements, Vincent found them "unrealistic ... a clear misconception of Communism...
...next trouble spot may be, not Indo-China, but Burma. A rich prize and weakly held, Burma, which declared its independence from the British Empire in 1947, has a common frontier with Red China which its ill-trained, ill-equipped 50,000-man army shows no capacity to defend. Last week at the Paris meeting of U.N., Burma, as well as Indo-China, was in mind when representatives of the U.S., Britain and France, one by one, got up to warn that any "Communist aggression in Southeast Asia would . . . require the most urgent and earnest consideration...
...equally indisputable that Philbrick is abusing this right. Because his articles, as well as his career, deal with ferreting out subversives, he cannot avoid discrediting entirely innocent individuals. He has in effect tried these individuals before the American public in a trial where the accused have no chance to defend themselves...