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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When: Registration can begin as soon as the bill is signed, induction 90 days later...
Cracking down with the state's anti-pollution laws, Duff has already cut the dumping of mine waste by 80% in the Schuylkill River basin. The task of dredging out millions of tons of accumulated silt and culm is ready to begin. Similar projects are under way along the Lehigh, the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers...
This week Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce...
...even Verdi finally fell before the power of Boito's poetry and his superb dramatic skill. Said Verdi, after completing Otello at 73: "If I were 30 years younger, I should like to begin a new opera tomorrow-on the condition that Boito provided the libretto." Boito did, and the result (with Shakespeare's help) was Falstaff, one of the greatest triumphs of both words & music of them...
...Producer David O. Selznick announced the formation of his own television film unit, which will begin producing "in the near future...