Word: estonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how many champagne and caviar parties a couple's friends may throw afterward, this sort of ceremony is no longer enough to satisfy the romantic yearnings of the Khrushchev generation. In the Estonian university town of Tartu, Registrar lime Toots had lately made quite a name for herself by providing a piano and a mixed chorus to sing Say It with Flowers to Me. Couples from all over Estonia flock to lime Toots, particularly on those great occasions Russians deem especially propitious for weddings, May Day and the Nov. 7 anniversary of the Communist Revolution...
...While South Americans were taking the big matches at Wimbledon (see above), only a handful of spectators turned out" to watch a blond, 16-year-old Estonian named Toomas Lejus win Russia's first Wimbledon title by routing Brazilian Davis Cupper Ronald Barnes 6-2, 6-4 for the junior championship, proving how far the Soviets have come in their drive for big-time tennis...
...police station in the Shetland Islands capital of Lerwick, Teayn identified himself as an Estonian, begged political asylum because "they'll kill me if you send me back." In Parliament M.P.s stormed at this first invasion of the Shetland Islands since the days of the Spanish Armada, when the survivors of a far-ranging Spanish galleon are reputed to have taught the natives the patterns that are still used today in Fair Isle sweaters. Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler told the House of Commons that three Soviet captains had landed at Lerwick and demanded that Teayn be handed...
Only in the last five years has the Australian administration brought the Fore under regular supervision (it rates them "semi-controlled," meaning that they usually resist the temptation to plunge a spear into a patrol officer's back). A year ago the government sent Dr. Vincent Zigas, Estonian-born district medical officer, into the Fore country to investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease...
...stand last week, Felix Inslerman said he had never actually carried a Communist card, but he recited the events which led him from a 1934 meeting in New York's Central Park with an Estonian named "Bill" to his dealings with Chambers. Bill paid him in cash, Felix said, for various services to the party, arranged for his trip to Moscow and introduced...