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...DIES" ESSAY, WINS PRIZE. 1935: COED ON REVIEWING STAND FOR MOSCOW MAY DAY PARADE. 1936: FRANCES FARMER, A MOVIE STAR AT 21. 1937: HOLLYWOOD BLOND WINS ACCLAIM IN BROADWAY'S GOLDEN BOY. 1938: STAR CAMPAIGNS FOR SPANISH LEFTISTS. 1939: FARMER WALKS OUT ON ROLE IN HEMINGWAY PLAY. 1942: FRANCES FARMER "DEPORTED" FROM MEXICO. 1943: ACTRESS ARRESTED, PLACED IN INSANE ASYLUM. 1945: FRANCES FARMER DISAPPEARS AGAIN, IS FOUND. 1950: EX-STAR RELEASED AFTER YEARS IN VIOLENT WARD. 1958: FRANCES FARMER, THIS IS YOUR LIFE! 1970: FRANCES FARMER, ACTRESS, DEAD OF CANCER...
...company's outlook is also better because of attractive new joint ventures with Honda. In September, BL introduced the Triumph Acclaim, a Honda-designed car that seats five people and sells for as much as $10,500. In addition, BL has signed a joint agreement with Honda to create and build a compact luxury car, code-named the XX, which will be sold both in Britain and abroad...
...Exodus and will then search Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Radday's challenge will be fiercely resisted by scholars who favor the entrenched J.E.P.D. theory, partly because he deals exclusively with linguistic criteria and ignores stylistic variations. Radday is no right-wing ideologue, however. Earlier he earned wide acclaim when his whirring computers supported the conventional theory that multiple authors produced the books of Judges, Zechariah and Isaiah. Says Radday: "These scholars can't have it both ways, approving a method when it suits them, and repudiating it when it does...
Lessons were learned from the Cuban invasion failure, the Berlin Wall and a meeting with a scornful Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Kennedy discovered that both private joy and public acclaim were to be found in working for a nuclear test ban treaty, which was signed with the Soviets in 1963. A few weeks before his death, J.F.K. roamed the country polishing up a speech on the treaty as a pre-1964 campaign maneuver. The folks loved...
...tung once said: "A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner," which is unarguable. On the whole, however, politicians have lost a lot more than they have gained by reaching for poetry. Warren G. Harding's Inaugural statement that he "would rejoice to acclaim the era of the Golden Rule and crown it with the autocracy of service" is still under review. William Howard Taft, when facing a challenge for renomination from Teddy Roosevelt, struck back, and told the New York Times: "I have been a man of straw long enough. Even...