Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
Through the Venetian blinds of his fifth-floor office in the Ministry of War. Juan Domingo Perón last week looked down upon half-a-million of his countrymen. They shouted "Down with Perón!" "Death to dictatorship!" For three hours, they marched through Buenos Aires' Calle Callos. They whistled, hooted and catcalled. It was Perón's longest raspberry...
...Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
Architect Wright has never built anything in Manhattan before. He improved the occasion by lecturing the newsmen on art & life. He called the big grey Metropolitan Museum, a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue, an "undemocratic," outdated stone quarry. Rooms should only be about 12 ft. high, he explained, so people will not be made to feel insignificant. Pointing to his model, he sermonized: "Democracy demands this type of building. The thing you can't get any more in church you ought to get here; the health, vitality and beauty of the human imagination...
...lawyer, formerly a very heavy drinker, who originally took the drug on a doctor's prescription for an "all-gone feeling." He found that "the effect of the drug was so stimulating that he gave up the use of alcohol. . . ." From a starting dose of a twenty-fifth of a gram a day, he worked up to one-quarter of a gram a day in five years, at the end of which he had to go to several doctors in order to get enough prescriptions. He was by then taking enough to kill most people. All this time...