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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shell had played its strike carefully, but oilmen got a hint that something was in the wind even before the announcement. When the company started drilling last month 60 miles southwest of Ely, anyone could wander around and look to his heart's content. But after ten days of drilling, Shell suddenly changed its mind. It put up a sign warning away visitors and built a fence around the operation. But by the time the well was brought in, at 6,433 ft, shrewd Nevadans were already trickling into Reno's land office, snapping...
...rate, this music--Perversion or no--did not seem to bother the Arabian dancer; this Queen of Shiva was more interested in sending shivas up and down the spine with her snake than in the musicians' shivarce. Besides, for all her profound Islamic symbolism, she was content to have a Hindu name...
Many thought 72-year-old De Gasperi, premier for eight years, had chosen the road to retirement after his fall last summer. He seemed content, after a period of rest, to run the Christian Democrats from the secretary general's office and let others sit in the Premier's palazzo. But, as Italian politicians became increasingly aware, De Gasperi had no intention whatever of fading away. Colleagues were convinced that, given the proper time & place and good prospects of success, nothing would please the old leader more than to be called once again to form a government. Until...
Medieval Essays is a handy sampler of Dawson's view of history. He writes with the smooth mixture of clarity, scholarship and happy metaphor that characterizes good British historians, and the imperturbability of a man content with a limited audience. (His 15 books have had an average U.S. sale of 3,600 copies...