Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of Chou En-lai in Moscow ended with a fanfare fortissimo. Joseph Stalin himself gave a state dinner in the Kremlin for Red China's visiting Premier. The Chinese reciprocated with a banquet in the grand ballroom of the Metropole Hotel; their thousand guests sat at 50 tables, and Chou moved about, gaily drinking to the health of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. Peking's press and radio hailed the Moscow communiqués of the Sino-Soviet talks as proof of an "impregnable alliance...
...there are a lot of coaches who would gladly settle for that much-maligned 16-18-2 four-year record. His competence meant little, however, to the Old Blue fanatics, who watched a Yale defeat on Saturday and then turned on their television sets on Sunday to see Herman, en masse, daring to smile and joke. This could not only be considered sacrilegious, it was sacrilegious...
Most sophisticated Americans-however anti-Communist- pretty well shared the overseas Dim View of our politics . . . The melodramatic mise en scene [was] made familiar to us by the creative imaginations of our most highly regarded social dramatists, novelists, forward-looking historians, social scientists, editors and journalists of the '20s on, both before and after the Popular Front dispensation...
...committee of the Lake Club resigned en masse. A new committee held a referendum. Last week the Lake Club's 1,200 members decided unanimously to open the club's doors to Asian guests...
...American's southbound Stratocruiser, just off from Rio en route to Montevideo, had reached 12,000 feet. In the morning sunlight, the clouds sparkled brilliantly. One of the 28 passengers, U.S.-born Mrs. Marie Westbrook Capellaro, wife of a Roman banker, pressed her camera against a window, eagerly taking pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace...