Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Minnesota's spectacled Walter Judd: "The question is what is to happen in our nation's interest. Sometimes we act as if we were not at war-and in the most perilous situation in which the U.S. has ever been-partly because it does not look like war. Therefore we do not go all out to do the things necessary...
...volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked in a swimming pool for an hour and a half. (Skeptics insisted that he had chemicals in the coffin to absorb carbon dioxide. But Houdini simply knew what turn...
...Cephalonia was busily masterminding a top-to-bottom reorganization of the Greek public school system so basic as to change norms laid down by Plato and Aristotle themselves. "In ancient Greece," said Dr. Kalliniki Dendrinou Antonakaki last week, as Parliament debated implementation of her newly adopted Educational Reform Act, "education taught only the pursuit of the esthetic ideals of truth and beauty. Now that society has changed, education must change...
...POWERS for enforcement will speed agency's actions against price discrimination, mergers, etc. Under new law, FTC orders against Clayton Act violations are binding within 60 days after issuance, unless appealed to courts. Old system required advance court approval of FTC orders...
Helen Kelly is also quite pleasing as Julia Cavendish. Though she frequently underplays where she should be more commanding as a first lady of the theatre, she has a wonderful way with a sarcastic line, and her second act is particularly good...