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Appointment in Odessa. The move was so secret that not even Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto was informed of this destination. Prieto found out about it only because he happened to be in Cartagena on business. The maneuver had been worked out by Juan Negrin, the pro-Communist Foreign Minister of the Largo Caballero government, in cahoots with Marcel Rosenberg, the Soviet ambassador, and Arthur Stakheevsky, Soviet economic adviser in Madrid (both of whom were later purged by Stalin...
...been for its low tuition ($50 a year for state residents), John Clark, 20, of Odessa, Texas, would probably never have stayed on at Texas A. & M.* But he did not realize just how much he had disliked his 2¼ years there until he paid a visit to the University of Oklahoma. When he got back, Clark dashed off a letter to the undergraduate newspaper, The Battalion. It began: "Dear darling Aggies...
...failed to tag the culprit. Nevertheless, said he: "We in no way condone the action of any group of students . . . to determine who should or should not attend this state-owned institution. John Clark is still enrolled here and . . . may return with no fear of further disruption . . ." Home in Odessa (pop. 29,500). John Clark announced that he would rather not go back...
...early days. Washing flapped in the breeze that blew between firetrap tenements. Men scrabbled for thin wages in the city's sweatshops. But at the Alliance, anything seemed possible. Even an art school flourished in its crowded classrooms. In 1915 Abbo Ostrowsky, an energetic young artist from Odessa, began the art instruction he continues today...
...international competition wound up in Spain, the U.S. broke another record. Dick Johnson, a Mississippi State graduate student who already holds the world distance record (535.1 miles from Odessa, Texas to Salina, Kans., set last August), sailed along over an 80-mile course at a 66.8 m.p.h. clip, for a new speed record...