Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tried in Moscow city court, the four were sentenced to prison terms-but not enough to suit Komsomolskaya Pravda, which complained especially because Shashkin, who did the actual shooting, got only 25 years. Why not death? demanded the paper. Under Soviet law, either the defense or the prosecution can appeal. Last week, on the prosecutor's appeal, the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ordered death by firing squad for Stilyaga Shashkin...
Besides these issues, Furcolo has other advantages working for him. Of Italian and Irish extraction, the Yale-educated ('33) Governor with a large family has a common-man appeal which Gibbons has not had time to build up. He amassed the largest vote ever given to a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the last primary and defeated a popular Lieutenant Governor in a year in which Eisenhower was sweeping the state. Gibbons is running hard and has made gains--notably in the western part of the state--but at this stage of the game it doesn't look...
...only real trouble the Democrats face this fall is in the race for Attorney General. Here deep wounds caused by a convention and primary fight, as well as the personal appeal of the Republican candidate, have given the Democrats real cause for concern...
...trapped men and events while they are still alive, and sheltered them from the passage of time." So said Claude Claude-Maxe in Paris last week, as he launched the first periodical in history to appeal more to the ear than to the eye. The first issue of his Sonorama, which he plans to publish monthly, has 16 pages of pictures and text bound in with six flexible-as-paper phonograph records on translucent plastic...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...