Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crystal Ball. That was where the matter stood at midweek when 217 reporters crowded into the President's news conference. What did Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower have to say about the situation in the Formosa Strait...
...Almost fully recovered from his recent illness, Pope Pius XII went for a ride in a transparent automobile. This car, the Pontiff's own idea, was built in Turin of crystal glass on a 1954 U.S. Chrysler chassis. Purpose: to let people see the Pope full-length, even in inclement weather (he feels that frequent public appearances are necessary to forestall rumors about his health...
...famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell...
Some four million visitors (300,000 last year) have toured Longwood, admired the sunken gardens, marbled conservatory, the great crystal chandeliers and thousands of blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
Kristallnachtt (Crystal Night) was the Germans' name for the night of Nov. 11, 1938. On that night Hitler's SS and the SA bullies tore through Berlin and broke the windows of nearly every Jewish shop in the city. Fourteen synagogues and 25 prayer rooms in what is now West Berlin were set afire. Last week, after years of fitful negotiation, the city of West Berlin settled for the damages. To the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations and the Jewish Community will go 9,600,000 Deutsch marks ($2,280,000). The city also agreed to forgive payment...