Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reads the-dedication of a book presented to President Eisenhower last week by Austrian Ambassador Wilfred Platzer. The book: an Austrian government study of how U.S. aid, a total of $1.4 billion since 1948, enabled Austria to recover from the ravages of World War II and postwar Russian plundering, and build out of the wreckage one of free Europe's most thriving economies...
...Communist book, no index of success or failure is more sternly noted than the degree of farm collectivization. Among the satellites, impoverished Bulgaria ranks highest, with 95%. Hungary ranks second to last, ahead only of Poland. Ever since the Hungarian revolt, when farmers up and left the collectives, the Communist leaders have had a hard time getting them back. Last December Hungary's Party Boss Janos Kadar confessed to Moscow that only 17% of the land was collectivized, and added, "We know we are behind other Socialist countries . . . but we are moving ahead as quickly...
First Impressions (book by Abe Burrows; music and lyrics by Robert Goldman. Glenn Paxton and George Weiss; choreography by Jonathan Lucas). Take a masterpiece. Tear out half its pages. Stuff the empty places with songs and dances. Rebind in expensive period finery. Open on Broadway, and pray that it is another My Fair Lady...
...help the housewife translate all these dietetic data into dishes, Margaret Keys has filled half the book with menus for every day for all four seasons, and recipes for everything from almond cakes to zucchini...
Last week doctors and hospital administrators on both sides of the Atlantic were debating whether mother had to desert Laura. Stimulus in the U.S. was publication of Robertson's book, Young Children in Hospitals (Basic Books; $3), arguing that hospital restrictions on visits to child patients are needlessly damaging, and that with a child under five, mother should be allowed to go into the hospital and stay-even if it means sleeping on a cot beside the child's crib. Britain's Ministry of Health accepted the idea and declared in a special report: "This...