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...Security Council, the Soviet delegation said yes to a Swede for U.N. Secretary General (see below), and Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky hinted that Russia may have changed its attitude on disarmament. Instead of demanding an unconditional ban on atomic weapons, he now showed signs of interest in the Western plan for disarmament by stages, with enforceable guarantees...
Montana. Republican Newcomer J. Hugo Aronson took the governorship from Democratic Incumbent John W. Bonner. Aronson, 61, known as the "galloping Swede," has had a rags-to-riches rise: a penniless immigrant from Sweden in 1911, he became a prosperous farmer and oilman, has served one term in the state legislature, campaigned for business principles in government. His cause was helped by Bonner's arrest for drunkenness in 1950 in New Orleans...
Even Harvard was willing to admit that the Green was the best team in the country in 1925, after All-American Swede Oberlander's passes submerged them, 32 to 9. Art French kept the Crimson in the picture by leading them to victory in 1926 and 1928. In the latter game, French, like Coolidge, didn't choose to run, and the varsity won by virtue of a baffling lateral attack...
Love's Jayvees had no such luck, however. With the Crimson leading by over a length only forty strokes from the end of the race, the oarlock on number two's rigger broke, and the oar came out. Two-man Swede Sundqvist missed one stroke, then threw the loose oar out of the boat, and followed it by diving out himself, the crew finishing with only seven rowers. Princeton sprinted when the Tiger coxswain saw the accident, closed the gap, and passed the Crimson, winning by half a length...
...Jayvees, on the other hand, are practically a new boat over last week. Swede Sundqvist at two, Bill Bliss at three, and Jim Slocum at five, are the only holdovers. The rest were moved up from the third boat at the beginning of the week, after last week's third boat defeated last week's Jayvees by over three lengths in time trials...