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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milk? "I get 750 gallons a year per cow," said Ukrainian Farmer Fedor Kozlovsky. "Not bad, but I'm doing better than that," said British Farmer Nye Bevan, who, with fellow Laborite Hugh Gaitskell, had turned up in the Soviet Union to reap some of the summer's bumper crop of Russian-grown political hay. "But you weren't overrun by Hitler," said Fedor. Said Nye: "Those were not cows that were overrun by Hitler...
...kids don't see any future in clowning," said Kelly, but he had a fourth ring up his tattered sleeve. "There is a new field that offers possibilities. That's the shopping center. Entertainment for those neighborhood centers is getting to be a big thing. I'm thinking of getting up a unit to tour them...
...Washington newsmen) in a stuffy white tent on Carlton House Terrace that was promptly dubbed the "Hagertorium." Earlier Hagerty had startled newsmen by referring to Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as "Konnie." In the Hagertorium, he angered them by resolutely refusing searching questions ("If anyone thinks I'm going to answer that...
...M-e-l-o-n." Under orders from President Eisenhower not to spill the beans of Ike's private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...
...handkerchief in his sleeve-embodying, as the Observer wrote, "the Foreign Office's distrust of the whole notion of press relations"-Hope applied his cool diction to reciting the food consumed by Eisenhower and Macmillan ("Charentais melon, sole Duglere"), pausing to spell out words down to and including m-e-l-o-n for the benefit of reporters...