Word: fountainhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...
...Ranches, including San Simeon, Wyntoon, others in Texas and Mexico. Mines and oil fields in the U.S., Mexico and Peru, including the famed Homestake Mine, rich gold-producer at Lead, S.D.,and fountainhead of his fortune...
Cinemactor Gary Cooper and wife "Rocky" did not bother to give a reason for their separation. After 17 years of a marriage which had provided gossip writers with scant copy, except for some recent whispers of a shy romance between Gary and his leading lady Patricia (The Fountainhead) Neal, the family lawyer announced that they would divide their property and part. Said Rocky: "I am a Catholic and I will never divorce Gary. I do not believe in divorce...
...this quip perfectly tailored for Amarillo Publisher Gene Howe, who has become the voice of the vast Texas Panhandle by outshouting the natives and trying to forget that he was born in Kansas. In both his Amarillo Globe and News, his garrulous daily column, "The Tactless Texan," is the fountainhead of authentic Panhandle lore...
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt...