Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repudiated enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident, an elderly, respected Nicosia lawyer named John Clerides, 73, presented his candidacy against Makarios. The situation was made to order for Cyprus' Communists. When Governor Sir Hugh Foot ended the four-year state of emergency last month, they emerged from underground, led by Ezekias ("Pappy") Papaioannou, 51, a Spanish Civil War veteran. Around him were Prague and Moscow-trained party activists, who already control the island's dock and farm unions. They volunteered their support...
...Hugh M. Raup, professor of Botany and Director of the Harvard Forest, has been named to the new Charles Bullard Professorship of Forestry, named in honor of one of Miss Bullard's brothers...
Alternating at center, the two Danners did a fine job in containing M.I.T.'s highly touted Dave Koch. They made life miserable for the big sophomore, blocking nearly half his shots and holding him to eight points. Hugh Morrow led the Engineers with...
...more than four years ago had Sir Winston Churchill made any utterance in the House of Commons. But one afternoon last week both sides of the House rose to cheer Churchill as he shuffled to his accustomed seat. It was his 85th birthday. After hearing congratulations from Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory House Boss R.A. ("Rab") Butler, the old man rose slowly to break his long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated the anniversary at their Hyde Park Gate...
...MILLION DOWNTOWN center is planned in Houston. Named after the late oil tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen, the twelve-acre center will be privately financed, have a 500-room hotel and three office buildings with a total of 1,650,000 sq. ft. of office space, all connected by air-conditioned pedestrian malls at second-story level...