Word: exits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sign that the people of Brazil were not especially wrought up by Vargas' dramatic exit was the small turnout. Even in Rio, where talking politics is a year-round pastime, only two-thirds of the registered voters cast ballots, and after the polls closed unused ballots littered the streets. In some cities the turnout...
Shortly after, Marilyn walked out in a black, form-fitting dress. As reporters crowded around in what was called "a mob scene like something from the French Revolution," Marilyn burst into tears. She was hustled away in a car with Lawyer Giesler. Said the A.P.: "An exit worthy of an Academy Award...
...suspension bridges) and "spiral" architecture (abolishing the division between floors) which Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood the interior with different colors for each hour of the day. His latest brainchildren, which went on exhibition...
Officially this places them in the classification "150X." After the Chinese Communists entered the Korean War, President Truman ordered all Chinese mainlanders studying or working in the technical sciences be denied exit visas not only to China, but to any other part of the world as well. The McCarran Act bears a similar clause, sealing the nation's borders to "150X" risks...
Early this year, when his wife became ill in Hong Kong, Huang made his second fruitless appeal for an exit permit. In July, Communist charges at Geneva that the United States was holding four thousand Chinese in this country brought Huang one last hope. In negotiations with the Communists, the United States released fifteen Chinese, among them Sheldon H. T. Liang, ex-Research Fellow at the University. But Huang was not among the chosen...