Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said he had not made up his mind regarding a successor. He promised to fill the post "as quickly as practicable." Reports continued that Undersecretary Christian A. Herter is the most likely choice...
...their day's pay at a high scream-somewhere around the speed of sound. Their quick, death-weighted decisions would scare a six-gun cowpoke back into the saloon, and the wonder is that their work is still a rarity on television. But last week televiewers had their fill of flying-in both fact and fiction. And even when Air Force technical advisers were looking the other way, neither overexcited writers nor overemotional actors could corn up the show...
...third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine's monastery. The expedition packed in their own food supplies, since the 13 monks that keep the monastery cannot spare any food from the sparse yield of their parched garden patch...
...firecracker that is sure to set up a ringing in management's ears is a share-the-work plan to reduce the dangers of unemployment by giving each worker a three-month vacation with pay every five years; when the senior workers go off, younger men will fill in. Says McDonald: the idea will create 30,000 new jobs in the industry at a cost of only about 12? an hour...
...Friedrich Schiller, and Oscar Wilde added his amen: "There is no sin except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...