Word: cleansing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At left--restoring furniture for re-use in the Houses. Below, a maid cleans rooms in Lowell House. This is the last year that Lowell will be cleaned by human hands; the other Houses will also be awarded "mechanized units" soon afterward.
"From Here to Eternity" cleans up James Jones' novel without dissiapating its impact. Frank Sinatra is fine, as are Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, and Deborah Kerr. At the Capitol.
Even in the company of men whose lives and works have been devoted to evil, Walter Ulbricht stands out as a man without warmth or sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described...
As the man who launched this Point Four program singlehanded in Haiti, Jimmy Plinton, now 38, is famous. Everyone from President Paul Magloire (whose glittering uniforms Jimmy cleans) to a back-country peasant greets him with a smiling, "Allo, Jeemie!" Few Haitians can understand why a man as successful as...
The Yugoslavs have not forgotten Nazi brutalities during the war, and West Germany distrusts any Communist regime, however anti-Russian it may be. But trade between the two countries (e.g., German machinery for Yugoslav metals) is flourishing. Last week Bonn announced that Yugoslavia this year would return to Germany 15...