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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow for a scientific conference. He never came back. In the months that followed, while Kapitsa himself lived in silence, the Western world's topmost scientists clamored furiously for his release. The Russians ended by paying hard cash to Cambridge University for the special laboratory Cambridge had built for the scientist to work in, but as to releasing Kapitsa, they would hear none...
...entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really a country man in the hearty sense," he admits. He has a nervous habit of stroking his long nose...
...seemed remnants of an earlier era-a time when flying was still for the birds or for men who wished to emulate them. No stub-winged jets waited to scream aloft, riding the thrust of a man-made thunderclap. These were sleek sailplanes, slim-winged, frail, and built to soar on the least suspicion of a breeze. Their pilots had come from 25 countries for the fifth postwar international gliding championships...
...Americans also held out words of praise. They thought Stalingrad "beautiful" and Leningrad "magnificent." Said Smith: "They've done a great restoration job. They've broadened streets, widened promenades, built parks and planted plenty of trees...
Good Sense. Actually he had; Manjiro was convinced that Japan must open her doors and adopt Western civilization. He rose rapidly to a position where he could help push open the door-he became a teacher of navigation and English, designed whaling ships built on American lines, became the government's best authority on things American. His book, A Short Cut to English Conversation, became Japan's standard work on the subject. When missions were sent to Europe and to the U.S., Manjiro went along as interpreter and authority on the West. When he retired, he was financially...