Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main parts are reasonably well played and sung. Actress Gaynor, who has a pleasant voice and a pretty figure, may very well satisfy the customers who did not see Mary Martin play the part. Actor Brazzi, whose songs are superbly dubbed by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Giorgio Tozzi, is suitably virile as her aging lover...
Batista's crackdown on liberties now killed off whatever chance remained of free presidential elections on June 1. Though the government stubbornly pressed preparations for the balloting, the only major opposition candidate, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, 70, warned that suppression of free speech and assembly made campaigning impossible. There were indications he might withdraw...
...church has its revered relics, e.g., some handwrought nails from war-damaged Coventry Cathedral and a stone from the German castle where Martin Luther hid in 1521 while translating and revising the Greek New Testament. But these rank as no more than details blended into the revolutionary design which, says the Rev. Donald Fisher Campbell, senior pastor, "gives a sense of the presence of the Almighty...
Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, who feels that the economy is suffering from indigestion or overexertion but that it is healthier now than it was three months ago, says: "Nothing can prevent our recovery going to higher levels of activity than we have heretofore except our mishandling of the patient by shooting in hypodermics, giving drugs at a point where the patient will continue to overexert himself and eventually put himself in a much worse position than he is at present...
...MARTIN'S TITAN ICBM will be test-flown this year. Air Force has successfully completed ground tests of 5,500-mile missile's components and inertial guidance system, which uses gyroscope rather than radio control...