Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case for the prosecution had been badly prepared, and witness after witness took the stand to confuse the issue fur ther. There were police officers to tell how Gaston's younger son had first accused his father of the killings, then retracted his accusations, then repeated them, then retracted them again. "The whole family are liars," complained the prosecutor. There was evidence of a detailed confession by Gaston himself followed by a retraction and the countercharge that he had been drugged into confessing after 23 hours of interrogation. There was another witness, a traveling salesman, who spent his entire...
Contagious Enthusiasm. In his bustling life, Monnet, the son of a brandymaker in the French town of Cognac, has sold bonds on Wall Street, peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...
Lost: an Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist...
...percent system has not come without adjustments and complaints. In particular, the more exclusive clubs object to having to take in less desirable messmates while those fur the down the social hierarchy resent getting the leftovers. But these adjustments are small in comparison to the value of giving every upperclassman a regular place to eat. Fifty years late, the new system has proved Wilson's charges partially wrong...
...Vogue readers, says Editor Chase, was simple. "There was one [size], and it was a 36." During the war and the roaring '203, Editor Chase gave Vogue readers the first news of the slowly rising hem line, of the first Chanel jersey cloth from Paris trimmed with rabbit fur. Vogue organized the first big New York fashion show, with models parading the clothes a la Paris, and was pleased to report that it was an instant...