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...State Department and the Voice were quick to state that the speech was not a call for a Georgian uprising against the U.S.S.R., just a little psychological combat. Modest beginning though it was, the broadcast showed that the State Department was moving further & further from its old shibboleths of "containment" of world Communism and peaceful "coexistence with the Soviet System...
...ground, consuming the greater part of the library, including all save one of the volumes John Harvard had donated. Feeling partly responsible for the tragedy, the Commonwealth put forth funds to the sum of $23,000 for a new building, and Governor Francis Bernard himself designed it in traditional Georgian style. Thus in 1766 the College's fifth oldest edifice was erected...
Whatever the reason, the Russian teamwork ("They pass without even looking," said one awed coach), plus a clowning Georgian named Otar Korkija, made the Russians look invincible last week, as they crushed eight straight opponents in the European basketball championships. Korkija, 28, balding and sporting a Cesar Romero mustache, convulsed the crowd by jumping for nonexistent balls, plunging feet-first into the crowd, and faking stomach cramps. But whenever the chips were down, husky (6 ft. 2 in.) Otar Kor-kija dominated the backboards, and his deadly shooting (30 points in one game) gave the Russians a big lift...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of ancient and Modern History, fails to agree with this suggestion. "There's nothing sacred about Georgian Style. I approve thoroughly of the new modernistic building and like the idea of using the architecture...
According to Leonard K. Nash '39, assistant professor of Chemistry, "The new building is going to be tough on the fire department." Several years ago, the City of Cambridge went to a great deal of trouble to erect a new fire station in Georgian style north of the Yard so that "it would blend in with the other buildings." Modernistic Burr Hall will be just across the street...