Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years ago. Carnevali had kissed off the election as a hopeless farce. He had advised A.D. men to go to the polls, as the law requires, but cast blank ballots. But gradually, through A.D.-de-coded government telegrams, he deduced that the junta would rely for victory on pre-election bribes and threats, and would actually allow a secret ballot...
Died. Milan Grol, 76, pre-World War II leader of Yugoslavia's Democratic party; in Belgrade. In 1945 he returned from wartime exile in London, became a titular Vice Premier, but with no actual power. When he realized that Tito was using his name as a liberal "front" while actually tightening the reins of dictatorship, he predicted gloomily that the Communists would wreck the country...
Coach Al Wilson's Yardling's also downed the Terriers freshman team in a surprising show of strength against a team that failed to live up to pre-season predictions...
...cities where the Clubs are lukewarm toward recruitment, and especially in areas where there are no Harvard Clubs, this ideal system deteriorates badly. Instead of receiving a list of pre-tested prospects from Club committeemen, undergraduates soon discover that they are the recruiting. In their short vacation time, they must hunt around town for new prospects instead of injecting conviction into men already interested. Worse, when the undergraduate recruiter returns to Cambridge, nobody follows up his prospects--except perhaps the Yale and Princeton scouts. It is little wonder, than, that from the standpoint of number and quality of applications, some...
...Pre-season propaganda looks fine on paper, but proof of the pudding is in the eating. Weiland presents his charges in their debut on Saturday against perennially tough B.U. If they pass that test, Crimson enthusiasts can really start whooping...