Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theodorus Franciscus Lombert does not look much like a power in international affairs. Born at The Hague, this meek-looking, ne'er-do-well son of a tailor spent much of his young manhood pleading in court, but the courts were primarily interested in his connections with a series of shady charities. Nonetheless, all things being possible, his neighbors at The Hague pricked up their ears in interest when Theodorus told them-in strictest confidence-of the great position he held. He was, it seems, no mere tailor's son at all, but "President Robert," the supreme head...
...friendly next day when they helped load the first eleven wounded into a couple of French helicopters: "We hope you will remember what we have done for you. We hope this war will end very soon. Now au revoir." But the eleven wounded men of Dienbienphu"were rath er hostile" to the Communist speechmakers, said one who was there, and the helicopters quickly took...
...er their pages turn...
...mountains, gorges and a torrential river, filmed in Canada's Banff and Jasper National Parks. Director Preminger often contrives to let the audience enjoy everything there is to see by having Marilyn up front and center, looking winsomely at the landscape. The dialogue is sicklied o'er by a philosophic glaze, and Marilyn's reading of some of her more majestic lines has inspired studio publicity men to trumpet the claim that she "unveils a deep emotional insight and a tender dramatic gift never before displayed." Probably much more to the point is Marilyn...
Transfer Point. In Los Angeles, Virgil Clopine, suing for divorce, complained that his wife Marie had moved her moth er, her brother, and her daughter by a previous marriage into his six-room house, then started going out nights with other...