Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders of the Atlantic world had met to confront together the gravest challenge their alliance had ever faced. They conferred, decided, and departed to their several countries with no great acclaim...
...Western world had been shaken before its leaders met. After their meeting, the world shook no longer...
...reject the offer-notably Norway and Denmark, who have steadfastly refused to have U.S. bombers based on their soil. Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, a 60-year-old ex-road mender who was one of the five Socialist or quasi-Socialist Premiers among the 14 present in Paris, promptly met that expectation. Said Gerhardsen: "We have no plans in Norway to let atomic stockpiles be established on Norwegian territory, or to construct launching sites for intermediate range ballistic missiles." What was not expected was his next statement. Seizing on the fact that the U.S. does not yet have any operational...
...World Reputation. At 22, Maria made tracks for Vienna and the famous Burgtheater. the sum and summit of the German theatrical tradition. She never quite made it. A film director named Karl Hartl met her in a cafe, felt the burn of her blowtorch intensity, and offered her on the spot the lead in the picture he was casting. She took the job, and pretty soon any number of Herzen, as the romantic rumors had it, were beating in Dreivierteltakt. She was simultaneously supposed to be in love with Producer Ernst Lothar, with a cameraman named Günther Anders...
...Came Out. By 1957 Maria decided that she was ready for Hollywood. Alone, and armed with only an invitation to the Academy Award festivities, she left last March for the U.S. An officer of the Academy met her at the Los Angeles airport and took her to her hotel. No flashbulbs, no pressagents; nobody knew who she was and nobody cared. But 48 hours later she had MGM's top brass in a corporate rattle, and into her lap had fallen a tentative offer of the juiciest part the studio had to offer...