Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron Curtain was raised dramatically last week to admit eight of Britain's top Socialists, who stepped through happy in the conviction that their hosts would really show them something worth seeing, convinced that they themselves could not be fooled, and appalled that anyone might think that the Communists could make fine propaganda use of them...
...that their simplest expressions of thanks to their hosts will be represented as prostrations before the might and glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron curtain. They presumably think this is a price worth paying in order to see Peking's peepshow...
...storm broke. Yet the 20th century is haunted by a question: Is Christian civilization going the way of the Roman Empire? Perhaps, say prophets such as Britain's Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. Surely, said a Christian theologian last week during a visit to the U.S. from behind the Iron Curtain...
Gina has the iron will of the true star personality. She is up at 5 every morning, works hard until 6 in the evening, studies her part or reads scripts for an hour before bed at 10. She neither smokes nor drinks, never takes a real vacation (studio technicians for Beat the Devil called her "Lollofrigida"). On the set, says Director Vittorio De Sica, "Gina is really brava." She memorizes the whole script in advance, not just a scene at a time, as the shooting schedule calls for it. She is always on time, always "reacts immediately to advice," says...
...restrictions, Lindsley could well be elated over his big project. It can mean rapid development of a rich and virtually untapped area, with an inland water storage system on the continent second only to the Great Lakes. As rapidly as possible, smelters and refineries will be installed to process iron, steel, cobalt, nickel, manganese alloys and aluminum. With Alcoa out of the picture, another U.S. aluminum company. Reynolds Metals, came in. Reynolds will probably supply a third of the capital for the $270 million first stage of the project, scheduled for 1962, and eventually use a third of the power...