Word: libra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Ulises Carbó, columnist for Prensa Libra: "The picture Guys and Dolls pictures Havana as a mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false...
...Libra. Three physicists will be suspended from Government atomic energy laboratories for refusing to believe in mesons. After suffering three straight losses, Princeton coach Charlie Caldwell will threaten to resign from the Ivy League and introduce three-platoon football, "just to be on the safe side." the Lampoon will suspend publication and will sell its building to an expanding submarine-sandwich eatery...
...analysis: Stevenson is a typical introvert. Eisenhower a typical extrovert; in times of crisis, American voters generally favor the introvert. ¶In the fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism...
...Manhattan, Astrologer-Numerologist Florence Anne Jensen selected the year's "ten most fascinating horoscopes." Among them: General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("headed for a hectic spring and summer as Mars conjuncts his satellium of planets in Libra"); Ingrid Bergman ("Uranus in wide opposition to her Sun at birth ... causes her to be unconventional and overemotional in her dealings with men"); Dean Acheson ("who should exercise extreme caution during ... June, July, and August . . ."); John L Lewis, "who will fare extremely well until April, when Jupiter squares his Pluto-Mars conjunction in the earthy sign of Taurus. This will cause...