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When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead Tsar's Winter Palace, gleefully had himself photographed on the throne, and used the imperial bed...
A small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was...
Auto radiomakers are turning to transistors because they eliminate the bulky tubes, perishable vibrators, rectifiers and tube sockets. Transistorized radios are now standard on Chevrolet's Corvette, optional on the Chrysler and Imperial, and are likely to be standard in most cars by 1958.
Standing up through the open roof panel of his black Chrysler Imperial, Ike enthusiastically acknowledged the cheers of the crowds that gathered at every populated spot along the 43 miles from Moultrie to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's plantation. At the Atlantic Coast Line tracks in Thomasville, a train...
"The [presidential] office," he went on, "is being changed from the American constitutional office of the first citizen of the Republic, into a European office much more like the early Roman emperors . . . This glamorizing of the presidency is the work of that bureaucratic elite which wants to rule the United...