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Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist...
...Dunster House Funsters took a tight 41 to 38 basketball decision last night over the Eliot House Elephants, while the Gold Coasters trod over a Leverett House team, 34 to 30. The Adams B team was not so fortunate, however, losing to the Bunnies by a 41 to 33 score...
...Aussies traveled Jack's way and he came along as playing captain. It helped some, but not enough. At Forest Hills last week, the Aussies took the doubles (with Bromwich and 29-year-old Billy Sidwell as heroes), but the U.S.'s Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales trod the challengers down under in the singles to keep the cup, 4-1. Australia's consolation: it was a bit better than last year...
...stars are stagestruck. To fill their yearning for the feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...with this feeling of unpleasantness in the air that the denizens of Nassau Hall journeyed forth from their New Jersey haunts to trod the brick side walks of Cambridge. The welcome mat was hardly out, however...