Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College also gives its own tests in Music, Russian, Greek, and Far Eastern history, making a total of 15 fields in which acceleration is possible. Of course, many Freshmen pass examinations and enter advanced courses in only one or two subjects; 211 men began college this year with one or two credits already earned. Only 87 A.P. candidates, less than 25 per cent of the total, failed to receive credit in at least one area...
Amid the growing uneasiness which grips the world, an almost unnoticed change is taking place in Finland this year. Without riches of the mid-east or the explosiveness of Berlin, the nation whose defense against Russia electrified the world twenty years ago is slowly slipping into the Russian Orbit...
Kekkonen returned saying he had not realized how bad Finno-Russian relations had become. "I am sure that all reasonable Finns will join me in saying that we cannot have spells of cold. Finland must naturally take into account that vital interests require our neighbor to trust us." Apparently Khrushchev had applied pressure against the free Finnish press, and despite Finnish constitutional guarantee of press freedom, Kekkonen said. "Without restraint and responsibility on the part of the press, our relations will never achieve that degree of confidence our interest deserves...
Meanwhile, moderator Henry Kucera, assistant professor of Russian, got in a plug for the faculty-sponsored "Discussions '59," of which this was an unintended enlargement. Originally, the meeting was to be an informal lounge chat. When it became a public forum, John J. McLaughry, appointed head football coach only weeks ago, decided that the issue had lost its original humor and announced that he would be out of town tonight...
...fear of Germany and with her desire to negotiate a stabilized situation in East Germany, free of what Khrushchev styles the "abnormal" presence of the armed Western enclave in Berlin. Macmillan is equally convinced that Khrushchev's domination of Soviet policy is so complete that any conclusions requiring Russian concessions will have to be made at the summit...