Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee's vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as "fossilized relics" fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival...
...Party Secretary, announced that the charges on which Gomulka had been arrested were false. They were drummed up, said Ochab in Moscow's best voice and most up-to-date explanation of such things, by Polish accomplices of "the Beria gang." Ochab was careful to explain, however, that Gomulka's release "does not mean that the party approves of his political opinions...
...beer operating before, one after another, they broke out in splotches and began to feel palpitation and extreme drowsiness. Comparing notes, they discovered that they had all experienced the symptoms before when drinking. Word got around the plant, and 58 other sufferers stepped forward. Together they petitioned management to explain why they were unable to take alcohol...
Balancing Saga. At week's end insurance syndicates reckoned their shares of the multimillion dollar loss, radar experts considered electronic failure against human failure, architects tried to explain why the compartmented Andrea Doria sank. In the U.S. an adjourning Congress, without determining its questionable right to act. authorized an investigation of the sinking. Overseas, Italians and Swedes bitterly blamed one another for the loss. Meanwhile, grimmer figures were being figured. The weekend total: 25 dead...
...effortlessly into international society. He has become a patron of the arts (he paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pieta) and the sport of kings (his 18-horse stable includes Nashua's dam, Segula). A lover of good food and wine, he has been known to explain to dallying guests, as he heads for the dining room: "My cook doesn't like to be kept waiting." He likes to dance and gossip,-"gives or attends at least five parties a week in London or Paris. Largely to accommodate his friends, Niarchos maintains a Long Island estate...