Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavyweight Ted Morrison seems likely to maintain his undefeated status against the Lions' Ivan Samsonoff, whom he has beaten before. Dick Hook will face Columbia's strongest wrestler, Captain Harry Scott, and Casper Cronk will go at 177, John Winthrop at 130, Phil Andrews at 137, and Tatsuo Arima...
...Wilson strongly affirmed that the proposed plan reflected no change in the attitude of military leaders, who maintain that a service period of less than two years is neither efficient nor economical...
Opera lovers are still divided on the merits of opera in English. The purists maintain that librettos are usually poor and translations worse--the main thing, they say, is the music. Others feel that the text is also worth understanding, since after all, the composer did expect the audience to know what is happening. As an experiment with opera in English, the New England Opera Company is currently offering on alternate nights this week two Mozart operas, Cosi Fan Tutti and Don Giovanni...
...Advocate was, of course, unable to maintain the splendor of the early thirties for very long. Soon letters were being sent to all alumni to aid in paying off a mortgage. This drive did not meet with the best of success, and, as a result, the Advocate was forced to allow the presence of Benny Jacobson below it and The Bat Club above. This situation is not really the Scylla and Charybdis that it would seem: The Gold Coast keeps quite, and the Bats only make curious thumping noises...
...Latin America has waned during the past decade. The only pro-Communist government in postwar Latin America, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, collapsed in 1954. Communist parties are now illegal in 15 out of 20 Latin American republics. Only three south-of-the-border countries (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay) maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Communist-bloc trade with Latin America, though expanding, amounted in 1955 to less than 5% of U.S.-Latin American trade, and Red performance on promises was ragged (TIME...