Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pics become available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "80 Days" or "Gigi") does not hit the square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-days blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...
Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
Satellites are getting more sophisticated. The first few tumbled any which way through space; now they are expected to perform all sorts of complicated maneuvers. The Air Force's Discoverer II, whose re-entry capsule came to earth embarrassingly close to northern Russia last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was as full of busy gadgets as a watch is full of works. The main purpose of its gadgetry was the seemingly simple task of keeping the satellite horizontal in relation to the surface of the earth below -a necessary step toward effective photographic reconnaissance...
...magazine Farmer's Wife, which was bought by the Farm Journal in 1939. Under pert Editor Gertrude Dieken, who was raised on an Iowa farm, the section has its own inside cover, draws up to 1,500 letters a month, most of them written as though to a close friend...
...Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses the double chorus as one more element of depth in the composition...