Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of Bowles' historical observations may be open to question, and his policy proposals certainly demand full debate before acceptance. But his ideas are imaginative and bold--reasonable extensions of Acheson's incisive insights. The prologue and the play, together, could make powerful drama.CHESTER BOWLES...
...anybody in the neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...
...McGinnis has a personal interest in maintainance: he spends more than half his time riding the New Haven in his comfortably furnished private car.* To most passengers, the most notable change on the New Haven since McGinnis took over has been the bold use of color on its rolling stock and on some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey-flannel...
...church they built was razed by the Normans in the middle of the gth century. A new basilica of Notre-Dame lasted the better part of another three centuries, but by 1140 it was too small, and worshipers fainted away in the crush. A year or so before, a bold, bright farm boy from the provinces was drawn to the intellectual beehive of the schools of Paris, and in the next two decades climbed the ecclesiastical ladder to become Bishop of Paris...
...week's end, with the golpe menace dispelled by Lott's bold anti-golpe, Brazil seemed calmer than it had been in months...