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Ever a fine figurehead of a man, portly Nikolai Bulganin smiled and applauded last week as his successor tipped him into the dustbin of history...
...century from 1520 to 1,620, tried to ape the much-admired manner of Michelangelo and Raphael, but, in missing the essence, turned out clumsy, valueless paintings. But art critics are now making an abrupt about-face. The long-despised Mannerists have at last been rescued from the dustbin and brushed off, to become Europe's latest vogue...
...other interpretation on their actions during the sudden governmental crisis in Saigon. French colonials in the city openly aided the Binh Xuyen rebels against Premier Diem's nationalistic government. Almost as soon as the rebellion broke out, French officials in Paris happily, although somewhat prematurely, consigned Diem to the dustbin and attempted to persuade the United States to do likewise. Even Chief of State Bao Dai, France's obedient servant, took time out from his duties on the Riviera to help preside over Diem's downfall. After the embarrassing failure of the attempt to unseat the Premier, the French government...
...Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history." Sitting on the dustbin, and holding the lid down, were Lenin...
Choleric Sir Thomas has appeared in Houston once before, in 1949, and took far more kindly to it than to some other U.S. cities-for instance, Seattle, which he called "the esthetic dustbin of the world." Moreover, he understands Miss Ima's kind of dominion. Says he cheerfully: "Music is a parasitical luxury, supported by the few. It is something that must be inflicted on the public...