Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside and reproved her for marrying an Arab. Says Tariki bitterly: "It was a perfect case of an Arab being a stranger in his own country." For "purely personal reasons having nothing to do with nationality," Tariki's marriage broke up, and his wife and son Sakhr now live in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. But he insists: "My best friends are still in Texas, and I'd like to go back there. I send all my assistants to Texas University...
Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
After the film clips of concentration camps with their crematoriums, Judgment built to its climax in a live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association...
...open on a new democratic vista, where individualism and variety could prevail. In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass. In France, Le Corbusier prophesied skyscraper cities where man's habitation would be "a machine to live...
Fair Fare? Chalk pocketed enough in these deals to live in splendor. His twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels...