Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST CHAPTER. Quietly narrated by Theodore Bikel, this collection of rare film clips avoids the chamber-of-horrors approach in recalling the almost unbearably poignant history of Poland's Jews...
...Best chamber music performance-the Juilliard String Quartet playing Bartok's Six String Quartets (Columbia...
...Angeles Chamber of Commerce claims to have found jobs for 4,000 employable Wattsians, but even so, the community is worse off than ever. Unemployment still runs close to 30% ; many residents are out of work because none of the chain stores destroyed last year have been rebuilt; insurance rates for some Watts businesses have quintupled. As evidence of the risk, Sol Goldman, one merchant who did rebuild his burned-out clothing store, saw it ransacked again last week. With 1,000 newcomers a week arriving in Los Angeles, Mayor Yorty complained, "The city just doesn't have...
...help Russia develop Siberia's great resources-at a profit, of course. The Soviets have sometimes seemed to encourage the Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals, all waiting to be tapped." He invited the Japanese to suggest methods of tapping them...
Producers Benjamin and Lawrence Rothman have pointedly avoided the customary chamber-of-horrors approach in their documentary history of the Polish Jews. There are no closeups of bulldozers pushing bodies into mass graves, no shots of the prisoners of Treblinka and Auschwitz. The narra tor, Theodore Bikel, never raises his voice a decibel above conversational level. Instead, with a rare collection of stills and film clips, the movie quietly tells the history of Jewish life in Poland, a history that took a millennium to evolve and four years to be obliterated...