Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pages Verbatim. The book he wrote, La Russie en 1839, has had a fascinating history. In 1930 Moscow dug it up and published it in Russian-intending it as a devastating testament of the wicked old days under the Czars. When the Communists realized that much of Custine's horrified report might have been a description of life in the Soviet Union's own new paradise, they banned...
...leaders of industry who staff the ODM." But, said the bosses, "he will get no such window-dressing" from organized labor. And with a self-righteous assertion that "we of the U.L.P.C. have voiced these criticisms not to impair our defense program but to improve it," they resigned en masse from all the advisory Government positions they had held...
Most of Actress Waters' book is an en-gagement-by-engagement account of how she went from shimmy dancer and blues singer in mean Negro dives to better things on stage & screen. But it is edged with appalling descriptions of racial discrimination, freely spiced with a man-by-man record of her long, disastrous and violent love life. A great actress, she has nothing important to say about acting. A vital human being, buffeted by life even in success, Ethel Waters never lets her bitterness get far offstage. But it is a story worth having for the truths...
...strength of these performances both Button and Richards are now en route to Milan, Italy, for the World Championships held on Friday and Saturday. They will compete against each other in the Senior competition, at which 60 skaters representing 12 foreign countries will be present...
...been signed in December, kept secret by U.S. officials, but leaked to the press from a Paris official last week. No time was being lost. Bulldozers had already been unloaded in French Morocco, the first group of engineers was on the ground, ships laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...