Word: gustave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...button at 7:50 p.m. a Rolls-Royce discharged Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise at London's Haymarket Theatre where they were to see a performance of Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover. When there was no trace of a royal welcome, the Queen murmured: "Where are our friends and our tickets?" Gustav shrugged. It was then they learned that the play was a quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing...
Except for physical sciences, headed by Nuclear Physicist Gustav Hertz, almost every Leipzig department has been destroyed academically. Compulsory courses (Marxism, Russian) help to keep a student in school as long as 13 hours a day. Homework is often an evening spent proselytizing citizens about Marxism. "Vacation" is an assignment in the coal mines or harvesting crops. While prune-faced female lecturers drone on about the miracles of collectivization, the student "sport" society dutifully digs foxholes and practices with carbines. As paid employees of the state, students have little trouble passing as long as they remain politically reliable. The school...
...arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year-old Ringleader Gustav Etzelt. Significantly, most of the arrested young neo-Nazi hooligans were in their early 20s, too young really to know what the Hitler era had been like...
States can best help local schools by rating them academically, James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus, stated last night in the annual Gustav Pollack Lecture on Government. But he warned against a rapid increase of the use of state power as a means of improving schools...
James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus, will speak on "The Child, the Parent, and the State" tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Gustav Pollack Lecture, will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration...