Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron fist of Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, Haiti's new boss, fell on the black republic last week, bringing temporary calm. After a weekend of arson and terror, the sullen followers of exiled provisional President Daniel Fignole went back to work. Kebreau jammed the jails with political prisoners...
...Saint Joan and Waiting for Godot. He is ideal for the role, if perhaps still a bit young. Handsome and six-feet-three, he properly cuts a figure of great physical and moral stature. A rich, sonorous voice is complemented by an extraordinarily expressive face as, going from calm imperiousness through tormenting doubts and jealousy to become a tragically pitiful uxoricide, the Devil's agent Iago gradually wreaks the havoc of his human lord and the heavenly Desdemona (see cuts on page...
...BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
...money," said a spectator, recalling all the times the handsome blond had finished high up and failed to win. Chances seemed good that he would blow it again. This week in the play-off it was Middlecoff who came apart. He splashed shots all over the course. Remarkably calm in the oppressive heat, Mayer played steady, close-to-par golf. While Middlecoff made Bobby Jones a prophet and lost the National Open championship, Dick Mayer...
...professor prays for-housewives, doctors, lawyers, mechanics. None had a thought of cutting a class; all were anxious for final exams, the chance to check theory with practice in the deep-running Gulf Stream ten miles offshore, in the surf on the white-duned Carolina beaches, or on calm, clear Carolina lakes...