Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Jan. 28 article goes into great detail about the personal expenditures of the royal family and some of the skeletons that are in its closet. This treatment of the situation, which is as difficult for Americans to understand as our mores are for the Saudi Arab, is immature. There is no doubt that Americans are irritated by some Saudi laws, but it should be remembered that the Saudis might also be irritated by some American customs. It is, after all, their country. JOHN BOLES Assistant Professor Loyola University of Los Angeles Los Angeles...
...Hungarian Repatriation Delegation arrived in search of the "thousands and thousands" of refugees that Radio Budapest was saying now wanted to return home. Near the camp gate 50 refugees spotted the Kadar men in the convoy's third car, and leaped to grab them. A special police detail assigned to the delegation by apprehensive Austrians wrested the refugees...
...Barnyard. The Soviet embassy was a true enclave-an island of cruel and clownish Soviet life. The best part of the Petrovs' book describes in detail the life of the higher Soviet bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown...
...file who took to wearing "uniforms" of top boots and padded jackets also led to wholesale arrests. Yet out of blundering and indecision, the stubborn Poles whipped together perhaps the most potent underground fighting force in Europe. Author Korbonski, a lawyer, had charge of communications, and tells in compelling detail how within four months he established radio contact with London and built up a succession of hideouts for his transmitters. The underground had its own court, newspapers and parliament; illegal printing presses poured out forged ration cards and even German military passes...
...Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. After seeing their Iceman, O'Neill's widow asked Director Jose Quintero and associates to stage the profitable Broadway premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night. 'Take a Giant Step, which analyzes in painful detail the struggles of a Negro boy in a small New England town, has been bought by Hollywood, will also be produced next year in London...