Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Let's hope there's no danger of that. This is just a big scientific good-will project, and the Russians are just trying to further the common scientific cause. But then again, maybe they're not. Does anyone know the price of a one-way ticket to Uraguay...
...groups split, the result would be chaotic with labor raids and wide-spread strikes. The real victim would then be the national economy. Meany and the leaders of the AFL must decide then, either to take these risks and expel the Teamsters or play a waiting game and let Hoffa cut his own throat...
...counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated some of his leftist ideas. As Villeda stopped talking of doubling and tripling wages, the junta warmed to him, decided to let the voters elect a constituent assembly. In last week's balloting, Villeda's Liberals won 36 out of the 58 seats. The assembly also has legislative powers and can either name Villeda President or schedule elections, which he claims to prefer and would probably win with ease...
Arkansas Governor Faubus offered exclusivity to NBC and CBS, in turn, if they would give him time to speak, but they would let him appear only if he would also answer questions. ABC accepted Faubus' terms-its third exclusive Faubus telecast in three weeks-and promptly got itself dubbed "the Arkansas Broadcasting Company...
...girl of the title (Ellie Lambetti) is the daughter of a well-to-do businessman on the island of Hydra. Her father was killed in the war, and his family has fallen on evil days. To keep the big house going, they have let all the servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts...