Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schizoid Progress. The trial drew much attention. Outside the courthouse last week, some 30 of Sinyavsky-Tertz's students from the Institute of World Literature stationed themselves defiant ly, despite deep snow and 6-below-zero temperature. More important, the trial illustrated the curiously schizoid prog ress of Soviet justice. Never before in a Soviet court had two authors been accused of "political crimes" on the basis of their literary output alone, and the inevitable convictions would set a disastrous legal precedent for esthetic freedom in Russia. On the other hand, a trial conducted with press coverage marked some...
...budget reaches into every national nook and cranny. It concerns itself with appropriations for a nuclear aircraft carrier, for cancer research and free school milk, for the cost of shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion...
...movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that its final defeat looks suspiciously like a snow...
...Alpine events, the slalom rewards natural ability and the downhill rewards practice. Naturally, Harvard is better in the slalom. If all the Alpine members can keep their yellow bottoms in contact with the snow this week-end, they could capture a third in the slalom. The Crimson's only USEASA A-rated skier, Steve Blodgett, should place high...
Practice at Soldiers Field on either one inch of snow or straw should enable the cross-country team to place close to the top of the league. Nordic team captain Jon Chaffee, a senior, resumes his battle with David Rikert of Williams for first in the cross country event...