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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ovation 1." Khrushchev raised laughter or cheers on schedule. In fact, reported Pravda, his closing speech drew even bigger cheers than his stem-winding keynoter. Pravda's box score: applause 14 times, stormy applause 20, stormy and prolonged applause 15, animation in the hall 11, laughter 3, ovation 1, everyone stands...
Hillsdale, the four-year-old bay colt that is suddenly the hottest piece of horseflesh in U.S. racing, flashed across the finish line to win the $177,150 Santa Anita Maturity. In a box near the finish line, a huge bulk of a man broke down and cried for joy. At 3:30 next morning, flushed with triumph and celebration, Clarence Whitted ("Big Smitty") Smith, 40, wandered out to Hillsdale's barn, delivered a rambling oration to his horse...
First out of the box at the presidential press conference last week was one of the bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...
...Box Office TNT Scriptwriter Stanley Shapiro and Director Blake Edwards (This Happy Feeling), two of the most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with anecdotes and jokes (see box), which illustrate the Soviet mood...