Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty years ago this week, the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia met in Petrograd. For Russia's people, the Constituent Assembly was more than just a word. It was the instrument that was to fashion a new, democratic Russia. The Bolsheviks, seizing power in the October Revolution, permitted the elections already arranged by the Kerensky government, because they thought they would win. They were stunned at the results. Across Russia, an astonishing 50% of the eligibles voted; out of a total of 707 delegates, 370 were Social Revolutionaries, only 775 Bolsheviks. Seventeen hours after...
...Sahara to the Mediterranean coast, the French strung the baby pipeline across 93 miles of desert from Hassi Messaoud northward to Touggourt and widened 120 miles of narrow-gauge railway to transport the oil from Touggourt to the coast. One barrel of oil delivered to France in this cumbersome fashion costs an estimated ten times as much as a barrel imported some 6,000 miles from Texas-but the French, anxious to create a "psychological shock" at home, considered it cheap at the price...
Paths of Glory. A passion out of fashion, antimilitarism, is vented by a gifted new director, 29-year-old Stanley Kubrick (TIME...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
Parity Waste. In Tokyo, Theater Manager Ryohei Tanaka sent 1,200 pairs of black lace panties to Tokyo cabaret girls, offered them free tickets to the movie Don't Go Near the Water if they showed up wearing the garments, ruefully hired a fashion model to salvage his misfired publicity stunt when not one girl showed...