Word: corridore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as Communist troops remained on the offensive in South Viet Nam and as Russian jets buzzed Allied planes in the Berlin air corridor, there seemed little likelihood that international talks could lead to anything beyond more talks...
...number of Western rejections of Moscow's "reasonable" requests, the Russians might try to walk out of the Air Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended and a Soviet official in Berlin announced that all requests for exclusive air space...
Elevators I--You first have to find them. If you want to go up to see the lovely view, you have to go into the building, take several steps down, walk through a corridor, go several steps up, go outside, walk along another corridor, go back inside, and try a right. It doesn't always work...
...noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies...
Flat Refusal. Gullion, with U.N. Un der Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing...