Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France. Speidel was intimately involved in the plot to overthrow Hitler, but like his superior. Rommel, disapproved of assassinating him. When the assassination attempt failed, Speidel was one of those cross-questioned by SS interrogators but handled himself so skill fully that Hitler never got enough on him to hang him with the rest...
...They Hang Everything." During World War II, while Nazi armies besieged Leningrad, Soviet technicians huddled in bomb shelters deep beneath the Hermitage, patiently picked away at the staggering task of cataloguing the museum's 2,000,000 objects. The job is still going on. Today the collection sprawls through 322 halls and galleries that stretch some 15 miles. Strangely, the museum has no Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault...
...work), 40 Rubens, at least a dozen each of Cezanne and Picasso.* The walls are magnificently cluttered. "The emphasis in Russia is not on art as we know it," explains Callisen, "but on culture and the history of culture. So where we would put some things in storage, they hang everything...
Williamsburg will hang its newly acquired picture of Nancy, who later married a church organist in Jamaica, in its Raleigh Tavern. This is fitting enough, since George dined there before going to the theater, and Nancy herself must have been no stranger...
Mass production was also boosting safety devices, driving down prices on expensive navigational equipment. Raytheon produced a simple kitelike screen ($14.95) to hang on a mast in a fog so that small craft will shine extra bright on big ships' radar. And depth indicators that sold two years ago for $500 were down...