Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple, single causes." In a safe in his office he keeps a neat file of all his main problems, with the essentials of each summarized as briefly as his staff can get them down. When the dictator has to face a problem, he writes down the considerations in three columns on a piece of paper. In one column he sets down what he wants to do, in the next the obstacles, in the third his possible courses of action. "He doesn't always recognize all the obstacles," one of his friends concedes...
...quandary as old as the state of matrimony. Home on leave from a colonial service job in Tanganyika, Belgrave had become smitten with the Mayfair-bred daughter of a prosperous knight, and knew he could not support her on his colonial service pay. He began to read the "Personals" column of the London Times and was intrigued by this...
Just Eight. Last week, as a result of Lopuszynski's strange tale, Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz stood before a Cracow courtroom in one of the most bizarre murder cases in Poland's history. The Polish Communist press, usually confined to turgid polemics, devoted column after column to full and sensational reports by 80 reporters covering the trial ("It is refreshing to read again about ordinary human frailties," said one Pole). Some spectators paid as much as 2,000 zlotys (three months' pay for a workman) for a black-market ticket to get into the packed courtroom. Mazurkiewicz, the center...
...year. The Chinese "invasion," said the government, was limited to the Wa States, where Red troops began to cross the border in the 1954-55 winter. By May of last year, Chinese Communist forces had established semipermanent outposts inside the Wa States, and in November a Burmese army column on routine "flag march" in the Wa country was attacked by a Chinese force which finally retired after suffering ten casualties...
...youngsters themselves produced the country's hottest new syndicated feature. Before its first appearance, Pollster Eugene Gilbert's "What Young People Think," distributed by A.P. Newsfeatures, lined up 271 U.S. and Canadian newspaper outlets with 17 million circulation. In several cities editors vied for the weekly column. The Washington Star snapped it up without even seeing a sample, and the New York Journal-American" splashed a red bannerline atop its masthead last week to herald publication of Gilbert's first column...