Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect of its U.N. allies...
...weeks ago the Undergraduate Athletic Council voted to elevate soccer from minor to major sport standing, after two years of intensive work spent in drawing up a list of criteria for elevation...
Confronted for the first time with a list of standards that must be met minor sports will view with envy the major "H". However, requests for major sport status will not, as happened at Yale, be approved en masse. The Council has specified that each sport will be considered separately...
Eventually, other minor sports may follow the lead of soccer and apply for major recognition, but first they must desire it, then they must apply for it, and above all, they must merit...
...Moscow theater, French existentialist Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute, with some minor changes made by Political Mugwump Sartre himself, was regaling Soviet audiences, but hiding behind the odd alias of Lizzie McKay. Reason for the title change, according to Sartre's secretary: "There is no good Russian equivalent for 'respectful prostitute...