Word: sten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkness of a South African summer morning last week, thousands of Johannesburg policemen-the whites armed with Sten guns and rifles, the blacks with clubs and spears-filed out of their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
Senior Sandy Whitelaw, a member of the 1952 British Olympic Squad and the Crimson's only Class A skier, is entered in the downhill and slalom events along with Captain Ebbe Dane, veteran Pete Churchill, Sten Lium, and Jim Graves. Churchill, Pat Colt, Lindsay Fischer, and Joe Poindexter, last year's freshman captain, will jump and run cross-country. Dane and Lium are also entered in the cross-country...
...only team action of the weekend saw a Crimson entry finish 13th in a field of 14 at the Eastern Cross Country Relay Championship, Saturday. Sten Lium turned in the varsity's best leg, 47 minutes for the six-mile...
...Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some 250,000 Aztecs in the famed siege of Tenochtitlan. Remembered for a superior World War II novel (From the City, from the Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses, splashes his pages with just the right mixture of bravery and bravura. But beyond that, he captures what few historical novelists even pursue-the moment of impact between two cultures, Western man of the high Renaissance forcing his Faustian will on the passive, hieratic Aztec civilization as it muses...
...Junior Sten Lium led the varsty ski team entrants yesterday in the eight mile Jackson Cross Country Race at Jackson, N.H. Lium was 26th in a field of 51 which included some the country's top cross country skiers...