Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...Central Bridge...
There are only 10,000 active Huks, with several hundred thousand sympathizers, among the 20 million Filipinos. But they have caused great damage in the central Luzon plain, the Philippines' rice bowl. They stage daring raids within ten miles of Manila. They have large supplies of firearms, including machine guns and mortars, which they got from the U.S. when they fought the Japanese as guerrillas, or took from the Japanese after the surrender. Last year, Huk Leader Luis Taruc, an avowed Communist, made an agreement with President Elpidio Quirino to register the Huks' arms in exchange...
...Roman Catholics have long felt the need for a central agency where the church could express its official views on social, economic and moral questions. Rather than set up a new agency, they decided on the reorganization of an old one: the ten-year-old bureau of information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington...
...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...