Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacred cows were startled. The roar of gun salutes echoed from the peaks of the Himalayas. The 108,000 inhabitants of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, knew that the big event was taking place in ornate Singha Durbar Hall. Before the glittering assembly of 35 white-uniformed Nepalese generals, His Highness, the Maharaja Padma Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite, President Truman's personal representative, were signing exchange notes which established U.S. diplomatic relations and opened trade. Their watches carefully synchronized, the 73-year-old Maharaja...
...proposed match with Yale remains in doubt, pending the fortunes of the Blue and the Crimson in the Eastern championships. If the match is not played off as a non-tourney event, last Monday's victory over B.U. will stand as the last individual encounter of the season, and the Crimson's present spotless record will stand untouched...
...believe your paper is hurting Valley City, and that you should dispose of it to someone with a different slant on major issues; that in event you decline to sell it, another daily paper should be started...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...
...second Yard concert is scheduled for next Tuesday, May 13. Only a heavy rain at starting time will be able to force cancellation of either event, manager E. Barr Peterson '47 has promised...