Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...300th anniversary of Dutch-founded Kingston (pop. 28,817), N.Y. This week the royal couple motored down to see what had happened to another Dutch settlement, New Amsterdam. The big city made it plain that it enjoyed seeing the Queen too: a quarter-million people cheered her as she rode up lower Broadway to be welcomed at City Hall; the applause went warmly on at dinners and public appearances during her visit. In its quest for good will, The Netherlands had made no mistake in sending Juliana back to the New World...
...time, pulled the lanyard at 2:43 a.m. Monday. Aided by younger elements in the army, navy and police force, he achieved complete surprise. With a group of captains and lieutenants he seized control of Camp Columbia, the key army base outside Havana from which he first rode to power 19 years ago. Addressing the troops, he told them he was taking over because the country had lost confidence in the current "ward-heeler government." Batista, who had been a long-shot presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for June, also said: "I had news that President Prio, faced with...
...first the White Lady rode through the night clinging to her mother's fur. After five days of this she stayed behind in the grotto. Dubkin often picked her off the roof, and soon she lost fear of him. Sometimes he took her home at night in spite of his mother's protests, and returned her to the grotto just in time for her breakfast. When the White Lady learned to fly, Dubkin watched her lovingly. He caught insects and held them up; she dropped down from the dark sky and picked them out of his hand...
...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
...sophomores started the last game for Yale, while two of last year's starters rode the bench. Yale Coach Howard Hobson last used sophomore Jim Plecas and John Weber at the forwards, sophomore Spence Schnaitter at center, and senior guards Captain Ed McHugh and Jerry Labriola, but he may change tonight and put in Bob Harding and Dave Sears at the forwards. No matter who plays for Yale, the Elis will have a slight height advantage over the Crimson...