Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the report made it unlikely that the West would urge a full-dress Security Council debate on Laos, and the Russians jeered that the report "collapsed the Laotian charges like a card castle," the fact was that the very presence of the U.N. observers in Laos has put a considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping...
...Southern California (7-0)-gathered speed slowly, last week peppered West Virginia...
Reviewing the facts and the films, U.S.C.'s President Dr. Norman Topping made a public apology to the University of California for "this most regrettable incident," and promised that it would not happen again. Last Saturday, as U.S.C. coasted to an easy win over West Virginia, Mike McKeever was at his usual position and at the bottom of a major share of U.S.C. tackles. But he kept his elbows close to his sides...
Married. Claude Rains, 69, British-born actor; and Agi Jambor, 50, Hungarian immigrant (1947) pianist; he for the third time, she for the second; in West Chester...
...there is a psychological factor. Most Russians are well aware that they are far behind the West in most areas. But the Luniks have demonstrated that in science, Russia can not only compete, but in at least one area is clearly ahead. U.S. scientist visitors get the impression that all of Russia's huge resources will be directed toward expanding that lead to cover the whole field of science...