Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the United Nations first began, its partisans have urged the creation of a U.N. army to enforce its will. Deriding the idea, Russia's delegate Andrei Vishinsky used to say that such a force would be useful only for parading up and down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, with Secretary-General Trygve Lie out front on a white charger. In the midst of the Lebanese crisis last August, President Eisenhower called on the U.N. to set up a "standby peace force." But last week U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cautiously rejected the whole idea of a permanent...
...lower mainland and Vancouver Island face the prospect of power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea is to build a dam on the Columbia at Mica Creek, north of Revelstoke, B.C., to generate...
...Parisians began to give Sonorama a whirl, Claude-Maxe was sure he had sold himself a good idea. He confidently printed 60,000 copies of the first issue, saw 20,000 snapped off the stands in four days, ordered another 40,000. Next month he plans to print 150,000 (with scenes and recordings from the life of Pope Pius XII), and he thinks he can hear a circulation...
...obvious staging that only Peggy Wood knows how to rise above underlines everything that is tiresome, or tinny, or both. Actually, The Girls in 509 has just enough winning gags and gadgets for a topnotch revue skit. In its present form, Playwright Teichmann, having come up with a bright idea, clung to it until it pulled him down...
...certain vulnerability), it is impossible not to believe that the "haloed band" did not sense what it was in for. Their parties, Lady Diana says, were "dances of death." On one party, on a chartered boat on the Thames, young Denis Anson thought it would be a good idea to take a dip. He was never seen again. Diana held his watch, and later consoled herself that he probably would have been the first to be killed in the war. It was a scene for the historian -one a novelist would hardly dare to invent...