Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trinity Monastery at Zagorsk, the Americans were startled by their hosts' propaganda measures: throughout the 45-mile drive, an open ZIS limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with Soviet cameramen taking pictures. Inside the monastery batteries of klieg lights ensured that the photographers would not miss a detail. The conferences had hardly got under way, when it seemed that they might break up in a squabble. When Metropolitan Nikolai, No. 2 Russian prelate in the Moscow patriarchate, asked how the U.S. could work for peace without joining the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council, the Americans got up their...
...President apparently has none of these symptoms. He is under constant medical observation. He is receiving anti-coagulant treatment designed to prevent further trouble. He is cutting down on social commitments and detail works...
...Bernstein, an amateur hypnotist, had put Housewife Tighe, who uses the name Ruth Simmons to avoid publicity, into a trance in which she conjured up an earlier incarnation as Bridey, a redheaded lass born in Cork. What made the story chillingly persuasive was the mass of circumstantial detail about people, places and customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign to her. $25 an Existence. In two months Bernstein's book shot through eight printings and 170,500 copies into No. 1 spot on U.S. nonfiction bestseller lists overlapping Anne Lindbergh...
...detail the MacKinnons did not support feminine folklore. The last five days of the cycle, often marked by "premenstrual blues," are dangerous but not so bad, they concluded, as the preceding week. Their recommendations: warn high-strung women and those with chronic diseases to 1) take better care of themselves, 2) get more rest during the second half of the cycle, 3) have major operations only in the first phase...
DEAD STORAGE, by George Bagby (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75), describes in repellent detail the last hours of a prosperous pimp, and introduces as ugly a set of murder suspects as the season has offered. The case is tackled by Inspector Schmidt of New York Homicide, whose homey habit of taking off his pinching shoes in moments of stress somehow makes the sordid details of the crime seem more wholesome...