Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Largely responsible for last week's success was Dwight Eisenhower himself. Pink-cheeked and purple-tied, Ike found his head table seat like a Rotary Club regular, ate filet mignon (rare) while 480 paying guests struggled with minute steak. He chatted amiably with tablemates, helped pass along scribbled suggestions from the floor for his own postdessert question-and-answer session to Press Club President John V. Horner of the Washington Evening Star. No sooner did the questions start than radio mikes opened, three television cameras blinked red, and a daytime audience of millions began watching the second live...
...years Londoners allowed themselves to be herded in and out of crowded Underground trains at the bellowed command of "Move along there, PLEASE!'' With the same unquestioning obedience, they marched off trains that stopped short of their scheduled destinations when ordered to and waited patiently on platforms for the next train...
...trench 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half got blindfolds...
...Batista's last years Havana became the Western Hemisphere's capital of lust and license, with touches of depravity and opulence unmatched anywhere. Brothels, such as the Mambo Club, with chic girls, matronly overseers and a consulting physician, catered to U.S. tourists. Cheaper cribs along Virtues Street enticed Cubans. There were 10,000 harlots and as many panderers. Payoffs from prostitution and gambling ran into the millions and were efficiently organized, e.g., Batista's brother-in-law had charge of slot machines...
...engaged in providing the Paris populace with various forms of habit-forming goodies. The movie is filled with excellent scenes in Paris sub-cellars and dimly lit alleys, and the sex interest is provided by Magali Noel. In all, Razzia is one that can't be missed, and along with Inspector Maigret should provide excellent relief from exams and Westerns...