Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia-Manchuria. In the 2½ years since Mao Tse-tung's Communists captured China, it has become Red China's breadbasket, industrial heart and political bellwether. It is also the arsenal, supply depot and staging area for Chinese armies in Korea, and the constantly expanding haven of the 1,500-plane Red Chinese air force which hovers buzzard-like over the stalemate in Korea...
...visit to Victoria, British Columbia, Lady Baden-Powell, world leader of the Girl Scouts and Girl Guides, firmly refused to plant a memorial tree at one of the community ceremonies. Said she: "I haven't got the figure for planting trees, and there is always a photographer there to take my picture bending over...
Died. Dr. Clark Leonard Hull, 67, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and author (Principles of Behavior, Hypnosis and Suggestibility); of a heart attack; in New Haven. In his lifelong effort to bring psychology closer to exact science, Dr. Hull contended that mathematics can be used for an orderly and scientific measurement of human behavior...
Crimson tennis players were shut out of both final matches in the New England Intercollegiate tennis matches held at New Haven over the weekend. The varsity had sent Captain Charlie Ufford, John Rauh, Art French, Gene Mann, and Bill Goodman to the Yale courts...
Eliot's crew and Leverett's tennis team played two Yale colleges at New Haven this weekend; but while the crew won--by a narrow, two second margin--the tennis team lost all except one of its seven matches...