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...development, which will provide new housing for 125 families, is scheduled for completion by the late spring of 1950. Financed by University endowment funds as an investment enterprise, the development comes after three years of pressure by the City of Cambridge asking the University to utilize the barren Botanical Garden grounds...
...their Long March, the Communists had been a battered band, barely controlling three small barren provinces. At the end of World War II, a Communist army of 1,000,000 men controlled some of China's richest lands-and 50 million people...
Since Rosenow set up his barren shop (his office lacks even a telephone) Jan. 1, the refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps...
Broadway had begun to wonder when Cole Porter's next smash was coming; Kiss Me, Kate marks an interval of five years and two flops since his last hit show (Mexican Hayride). In the barren interval he also had to endure a film biography, Night and Day, of which he said: "It ought to be good because none of it is true...
...Understand." For two days of suspense, the Suchow commanders did not budge. Then the evacuation began. Along both sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black...