Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters through ducal couriers, was how the slim, shy, blond Juanito should be trained as absolute monarch over what may well prove to be a turbulent Spain. Franco gave Don Juan a fill in on latterday Falangist philosophy, talked about Spain's need for autocratic rule in order to avoid opening the door to "chaos" (i.e., democracy). The way to make an autocrat out of Juanito: intense military and religious" training...
...Kiss Me, Kate album just yet, for once again. Cole Porter has come up with nothing in the way of a worthy replacement. The success of the pleasant, second-rate Can-Can seems to have taught Mr. Porter that a catch title and a song about Paris can fill in for his undisputed...
...objectives confronts the American. All the programs wish to benefit not only the participant and the U.S. college, but also to meet some need among foreign students--whether this need is for more facts about the U.S. or for a student health center. And it was in trying to fill these needs that most groups ran into trouble. For America's sterco-typical desire to "do good" is often suspect, especially in former colonial territories. It was not surprising that Americans in Calcutta found it difficult to induce Indian students to join them in a village work project--no matter...
Throughout most of the U.S. last week, the weather was fair and clear, but on television it snowed steadily. To TVmen, a Christmas without snow would be nearly as bad as one without mistletoe, carols, or Santa Clauses. In Manhattan alone, the four networks used enough artificial snowflakes to fill three railroad boxcars. After each winter scene, the snow was carefully swept up (it can cause serious trouble if it gets into TV cameras) and sometimes used again on the next program...
...though newborn, knowing absolutely nothing about Europe; ignoring facts and fashions, to be almost primitive. Then I want to do something very modest, to work out by myself a tiny, formal motif, one that my pencil will be able to encompass without any technique . . . Pictures will more than fill the whole of my lifetime ... it is less a matter of will than of fate...