Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help from Mr. Huston, I did so. This concluded my participation in the affair. Huston later decided it should be more of a comedy after all, and a man (Mr. Truman Capote) was hired to make it so. Altogether it made a lovely little film, and the end of it-whoever wrote it, wherever lolling-was a big improvement on the end of the novel...
...Killian. The President in press conference tried to head off a williwaw by insisting that Glennan's move was only part of a "study" in which the President himself would make the final ruling. But Glennan, plowing on, returned to Brucker's office at week's end with a written confirmation of his decision...
...keep Redstone-and there it would take on any chores NASA assigned. "All we need to do," Medaris argued, "is put up a new wicket gate where they can hand in their orders." Added point: if Army could prevent an ultimate decision by the President until year's end, it would probably get to keep Redstone for good. Under the law creating the civilian agency to control space operations, NASA cannot take over military facilities after December 31 without express permission from Congress...
...plants and animal life. Madagascar is the home of the wide-eyed lemur, of some 800 known varieties of butterflies, nearly 300 kinds of birds, half of which are found nowhere else. It is also the home of the once proud Merina tribe, which conquered the island at the end of the 18th century...
...hand, they said, was a Molotov cocktail. With him were 50 henchmen, and, in a city largely built of wood, all were carrying either firearms or firebombs. In a raid on Oopa's home, police rounded up more henchmen, found more bombs. At week's end Pouvanaa Oopa was behind bars, and no longer functioning as Premier...