Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiger, but leads to a long recuperation during which Granger and Actress Rush eye each other at length. As soon as he is strong enough to stand up, they both lie down, and the sanctity of the home makes its uneasy return only instants before the film's end. As Harry, Swashbuckler Granger reads his lines as they were written, which is a serious disservice to the writer...
...where were they? Instead of a throng of putative priestesses, there seemed to be hardly any women who wanted the job; 75% of the 152 female theology students at Uppsala University were against having women in the pulpit. At week's end one candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...
...layouts, book design. His use of chance effects and nonrational promptings paved the way for abstract artists' use of below-the-threshold impulses. But of one thing he is certain: "If the human being loses contact with nature, if there are no longer any trees, it is the end of the world. Machines, Sputniks, I find them horrible, ridiculous. The human being has become presumptuous...
Local Troubles. Both G.M. and Chrysler still faced plenty of labor problems. At week's end some 27,000 Chrysler workers were still out, along with 300,000 G.M. workers. Many of them threatened to stay out until they settled such local issues as washup time, shift-preference procedure. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther said all GM. locals were on authorized strikes, "free to press for settlement of local issues and grievances [with] full support of the international union." G.M. feared local issues would keep thousands of workers away for days to come...
...staff. Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, who, according to Historian Fuller's introduction, "meditated like a Buddhist bhikku: revolved the prayer wheel of his doctrines, and out of them concocted Napoleonic battles on paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until the end of the Flanders campaign did Kiggell visit the corpse-filled swamp where countless thousands of British and German infantrymen had died in the mud. Kiggell burst into tears: "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that...