Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Called Ella by her intimates, the princess made occasional short visits to Italy, where her former subjects searched for adjectives to describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut...
Loud Whistle. But things went wrong. Hlasko put in a long-distance call to his sick mother and sister in Warsaw. He reported to a friend: "My mother said she is afraid she will never see me again. What could I tell her?" He became bored with the language lessons and abandoned them. He became a dreaded guest at parties given by Polish emigres. At one he began whistling through his fingers like "a Warsaw hooligan." When another guest proved he could whistle louder, Marek furiously overturned the table, smashing liquor bottles and china. The U.S. foundation quietly backed...
...ties and appointed just before the trial began, pleaded eloquently for calm justice. He argued that there was no death penalty in Cuba when the crimes took place, that Captain Sosa Blanco was a soldier serving under orders in a civil war. He had not a single witness to call. At dawn, after 13 hours and when the crowd had thinned to 500, the tribunal returned the verdict: death. But the court agreed to hear an appeal, and the execution was put off until this week...
...eyes glazed and happy, Castro found 100,000 people waiting in the main plaza, received the title "Illustrious Son of Caracas." "If you call yourself the leader of America," said Wolfgang Larrazabal, who was Venezuela's President all last year, "I am ready to recognize you as such." Castro, whose ego is easily big enough to include the hemisphere, said that Cuba, unlike Venezuela, had won a "true revolution," disintegrating the army and punishing the guilty. He seemed ready to play spiritual leader to similar upheavals all over Latin America...
American scientists who have seen the aids call them excellent. Says Harvard's famed Physicist Gerald Holton: "Insofar as this material is new, it is striking, but it also represents another thing: that the Russians have expended precious technical thought on scientific educational equipment." The U.S. makes nothing like the classroom wave-motion machine, and an American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners...