Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with any other country permitting it to set up bases in Iran. President Eisenhower sent the Shah a strong letter, presumably reminding him that the U.S. had stood by his country when the Russians invaded his northern provinces in 1946. Washington also promised more aid. At week's end the Russians went home emptyhanded...
...Tokyo the clamor had its effect. Newsmen were at first curtly refused permission to go aboard the yacht while Filipino officers and men were being trained to handle her. Then newsmen were suddenly invited to explore the Lapu Lapu "from end to end." Explained a Filipino official to reporters: "The Lapu Lapu is not a presidential yacht. It is a navy ship." An aide tried to warn him: "If you do not give the press the entire truth, they will ferret it out." "But," replied the first official, "if I give the wrong facts who will be blamed?" At that...
...routine, convicted of multiple murder and robbery of their victims. In Bayamo, Oriente province, three army privates were shot for torturing and killing four prisoners. At Pinar del Rio three ex-soldiers were executed; at Manzanillo a policeman and a soldier were cut down.* At week's end the total of the executed stood at 302, with more to come. On trial for their lives in Santiago were 20 army pilots and 20 bombardiers, charged with "genocide" for bombing and strafing "open towns" in rebel-held Oriente province. Many of the flyers claimed that they were transport pilots...
...depressors-muscles that pull the arms down. "The arm depressors must be strengthened for best results in pulling at the catch and to push through at the finish of the stroke," he explains. "I'm a great believer in swimming with the arms." For hours on end Yale swimmers rhythmically flail their arms in Payne Whitney exercise rooms, lying on boards in swimming position and struggling with weights...
...victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted assistant for more than a quarter-century, will succeed him. To Yale swimmers, the Temple of Sweat will never be quite the same again...