Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drift away (said one agnostic Paris mother: "It's dynamite. If my children got hold of that, they'd all be Catholics in three months"). To conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
JAPANESE TOYS are being investigated by Public Health Service on complaints that they carry potentially dangerous lead paints. Dallas health officials say paints on some of them have "several times" the 1 % lead content that is considered safe limit...
...considerable number of Congressional lobbyists returned home this year with a wide grin of content, while a group of foreign policy experts sadly shook their heads. The chief reason for the lobbyists' "job well done" expression was the Congressional cutback in the Administration's foreign aid bill. The conservative business, manufacturing, and extractive industries which these men represent feel safer from economic competition from the "developing world" and feel somewhat more secure about a tax rate rise with foreign aid cut by a billion dollars...
Like most good generals the world over, dour, gong-shaped Marshal Sarit has always professed a profound dislike and disinterest in politics. Instead, he has been content to boss the army and to combine business with business by seeing that most of the army's requirements for supplies and equipment are met by commercial firms he owns or controls himself. The marshal's business astuteness pleases his followers but they have long been distressed by his political indifference, and have watched with more than a tinge of envy as General Phao and his 50,000-man police force...
Though the skilled directorial hand of John Frankenheimer showed through cleanly in the crowd scenes, Manolete was largely an attenuated and unlyrical hymn to the man. Only Actor Nehemiah Persoff as the manager brought emotional content to a bloodless script: "We kept asking for more and more and more," says Persoff after Manolete has been gored for the last time. "And more was his life...