Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story...
...Years of proof must pass by," said President Franklin Roosevelt in August 1944, "before we can trust Japan and before we can classify her as a member of the society of nations which seeks permanent peace." Last week, with the sponsorship and all-out backing of U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Japan became the first former Axis nation elected to the U.N. Security Council...
...maneuvering, appeared by chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that he was landing at Pevensey, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. Later...
Both the varsity and freshman cross country teams scored easy victories at the expense of Boston University yesterday afternoon over a muddy Franklin Park course...
...then you never know in this sport. There's always the big question of conditioning; and conflicts with this and that." He mentioned the lack of a good practice course nearby. "We've got to drive to Franklin Park to run on hills," he pointed...