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...Minister Marshal Chen Yi conceded that economic troubles and the quarrel with the Russians (who withdrew their technicians and broke an atomic-aid treaty) have seriously delayed Peking's atomic program. It would be "several years," Chen told visiting Japanese correspondents, before the regime could even test a crude atom bomb...
Adlai Stevenson paused patiently time and again while scattered hecklers hoo ed and booed during his United Nations Day speech in Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater last week. When one crude superpatriot interrupted to shout a question about Stevenson's beliefs, Adlai, unruffled, replied: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance...
Succeeding there, he moved into crude-oil production, then marketing. In 1958 Mosher took his longest chance: faced with an industry-wide oil glut that was driving out other independents, he bought up three smaller companies, forged an integrated oil company. It now includes petrochemical plants, refineries, tankers, 1,800 service stations and producing wells in the Middle East and Latin America...
...provincial village. They become increasing close, and when, actually uncomfortable with the town, he returns to Calcutta, he leaves her heartbroken and finds his own emotions unexpectedly mixed. Director Santyajit Ray's scenes are always well-composed and seldom ostentatious, but I wish he would not use effects so crude as the violent thunderstorm that breaks out when the postmaster's malaria reaches a climax...
...people who objected to the standard grey chairs did so with great gusto. "Any color but grey!" wrote one girl. "The room is like a monk's cell," said another girl, reacting apparently to the rather crude and unfinished appearance of the room...