Word: semis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate Olympic hopefuls will enter his semi-final try-outs next Saturday at Marblehead for the Monotype or Finn Class selection on the U.S. Sailing team. Tommy Townsend, a former Marblehead 110 champion, will face a field of 12 in Fireflies with the winner earning the right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip...
Familiar Problems. Few if any other U.S. diplomats had ever faced an ordeal like Angus Ward's. He had spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications...
...Association of Stage Managers and Stage Handlers is currently picketing Lyric Productions' second try at winter stock. Whether the pickets are necessary is open to some question. Lyric presents one of Tennessee Williams' great plays, with a fine female lead performance. For the rest, the production is semi-professional, in the sense that only half the cast performs with much competence. Given a bit of amateurish inadequacy, however, Summer and Smoke can be enjoyable to those who just want to see a good Williams play or to those who admire a good single performance in the midst of discouraging surroundings...
...peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi's late Senator James Vardaman when he declared: "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning...
With a license, American exporters can deal with the Soviets in consumer items, semi-manufactured goods, agricultural produce, and similar products. Russia, at least the Kremlin, does not, however, demonstrate a desire for these goods. Official Soviet purchase demands include raw materials and capital goods which are specifically embargoed in the U.S. Red Square, claiming a goal of economic self-sufficiency, does not request what American exporters are permitted to send. Estimates show that the Soviet people sorely need consumer and agricultural goods. Their masters, unfortunately, are not primarily interested in these needs. They demand only articles necessary for rapid...