Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev has superlative cause for worrying about the continued existence of West Berlin: it stands as a showcase outpost of freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying...
...weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn apology to the FBI or anybody else. Maybe I just didn't tell the FBI what Rogers wanted me to tell them. Maybe that's why that jackass is yapping his brains...
...talk, the opinions of incoming N.A.M. President Stanley C. Hope, 65, onetime president of Esso Standard Oil Co., were calm and restrained. A native of Springfield, Mass., Hope was president of an oil-equipment company before joining Esso, after his retirement last July joined SoundScriber-Corp. of New Haven, Conn, as president -on a three-day-a-week basis...
Leighton emphasized the importance of getting a "significant" non-Honors program in operation. "It is a dangerous jump to take," he maintained, "to assume that all students who haven't qualified for Honors by the end of the Sophomore year, or don't choose to meet the specialized requirements for Honors, have lost their right to an important form of individual attention from the Faculty...
From Amherst coach Richard Wilson comes word that 'things haven't been going too well." The Lord Jeffs are "much weaker than they have been in previous years," he commented mournfully, nothing that his squad was especially hurt by the graduation of Bill Warren...