Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeful plans of early October, the proposed tour of the National Russian Basketball Team to this courtesy has been cancelled by the official athletic body of the United States-the Amstar Athletic Union. The A.A.U., however, has left several questions unanswered-questions which many basketball experts feel might embarrass the A.A.U. if they were answered...
...lead story. To fill that column the easy way, a paper has merely to act as a conduit for the University News Office. Indeed, at some universities, (though not Yale), Administration censorship makes this the only way. The hard way is to dig up news independently, news which may embarrass university departments or student organizations, but for that very reason serves to dissuade these groups from making mistakes or acting arbitrarily. In the world beyond the ivied walls, this is the way free newspapers must operate...
...would be quite unrealistic to bring about the unification of Germany through a mechanical merger . . . at the expense of the social achievements of the working people of the German democratic republic."-We are not going to expose the East German Communists to the embarrass ment of free elections. We know they would lose...
...Watertown trolley--in to Harvard Square each morning, back to Watertown each afternoon--might be surprised to learn that the friendly, diffident-looking man who travels with them every day is one of the greatest scholars in the world. Indeed, at times that fact seems to surprise and embarrass University Professor Werner Jaeger himself. Last month, for example, when the Classics Department held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were. Reluctantly, the Professor reported that, along...
...manager from the Cardinals' Rochester farm who, Busch hoped, would give the team-and Budweiser sales-a lift. As for rumors that Busch is about to sell out, he purples at the mere suggestion, denies the rumors as "dirty, mean stories," hints that his competitors planted them to embarrass...