Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G. DEWEY SPIES San Mateo, Calif...
...Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good part of her village were blown to bits by a flight of U.S. Ninth Air Force bombers...
...Terribly Hindu." In the current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
Republican and Democratic platforms denouncing colonialism obligate America to support Cypriot self-determination in the United Nations this year, Zenon G. Rossides, Cyprus delegate to the U.N.. said last night...
...Sympathy (M-G-M), as a play, was basically just a darn good matinee drama, and the tremendous excitement it generated in audiences was mostly Freudulent. The play packed them in on Broadway for more than 20 months, and was sold to Hollywood for $300,000. After that, the movie world wondered: Had M-G-M spent a bad buck? For almost a year the Hollywood censors and the studio bosses hassled over the weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent...