Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic commodities as vanadium, cobalt, nickel, copper and molybdenum (listed as Portuguese cork) to Soviet-bloc countries. The record showed that Terbita paid $3,000,000 in profits to the Italian Communist Party. Police also have record that another $1,000,000, transferred from Poland to Terbita's account, never reached the party chest, and Lawyer Greuter said that the Italian Communist Party should ask Reale about that...
...port whole jazz bands from England to play his favorite tunes, Whispering and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage and rides around in a remodeled 1934 Ford. And with...
...prize-winning ($25) story, Errand of Mercy by Raymond Medeiros, is a skillful and well-sustained account of a homosexual's encounter with a young Swedish sailor. Medeiros knows how to write: he tells a story without showing it, so that each sentence is more a discover than a lesson. Without going beyond the homosexual's own reactions, Medeiros gets a convincing sense of the Boston streets through which they are walking and shows how the man is fooling himself about the sailor...
...below), is about Paris intellectuals immediately after the liberation. Most of them are famous writers who figured in the resistance and wrote some of France's best contemporary books. What is more to the point, they are barely disguised in The Mandarins. It also gives a detailed account of the French heroine's affair with a Chicago novelist, so candid and anguished as to read like a letter to a confessor...
...from Paradise Isle. The refreshing switch in this latest packet of nonfiction escape literature is that Barbara Hooton thought of Manhattan as paradise and regarded the wide-open spaces as a disease which Hubby Bill had somehow caught. Her account of the running of a New Mexico dude ranch, as breezily set down by her collaborator and longtime friend, Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis, might be subtitled "Auntie Mame Rides Again" or "The Comic Labors of Hercules...