Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech delegate to the U.N., told how the Russians were pressuring his country. All Czech envoys, "including the Ambassador to Washington," must make daily reports to the Soviet embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
Cooler Judgment. In Washington, the U.S. Board on Geographical Names was asked to change the name of Warm Pond, N.Y., to Highland Lake, on the reasonable ground that it is 1) not a pond, but a lake, 2) not warm, but cool...
...consoling factor is the almost definite shift in the trial site to Princeton's Lake Carnegic, the best course in the East. Bolles and every other coach have spent most of their spare time this spring trying to convince the Olympic committee that the original site on the turbulent and muck-filled Schuylkill River was not the place for such a momentous event...
...once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...
...Sainted Sisters. An easy-to-like comedy in which Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield, city crooks, try to fleece a down-East village (TIME...