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Jane A. Borden '57 of Concord, Mass. and Briggs Hall was elected alternate delegate to N.S.A., and Jill C. Spero '56 of Glencoe, Ill, and Bertram Hall, sub-treasurer...
October 30, 1950: Puerto Rican Insurrection. 33 die in fighting after five armed men fired on Governor Munoz Marin offices with sub-machine gun. Torresola's brother caught in burning of Post Office in Jayuya...
...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
...from Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese. The job has Red China's top priority. "The workers are moving mountains and filling rivers at an altitude of 9,000 ft.," Peking recently crowed. "They are battling ice floes and swift currents in sub-zero weather." The Lanchow-Sinkiang will give Russia its fastest connection to the Pacific. (The Moscow-Peking journey now takes nine days via the aging Trans-Siberian Railroad and Red China's existing networks.) The new line will also give Red China its best route to the Soviet Union...
...Compete. On opening day of the championships, despite sub-zero weather, little (pop. 18,000) Falun was jammed with some 50,000 ski-mad visitors. In the special jumping event, normally a Norwegian monopoly, the Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland...