Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their solitary confinement ended, they had the use of a library (Balzac, Hugo, etc.). and were allowed to play tennis with crude rackets and a thin rubber ball. Lieut. Cameron, a handy man with an accordion, wangled a cheap Russian model and taught the others to play. They got a daily Communist newssheet, full of propaganda, but saw only one American periodical in all their months of imprisonment: every week, Lieut. Cameron received from his brother, Bob, 21, a copy of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED which the Chinese passed on after inspecting it carefully and clipping out some of the articles...
...Soloists and orchestra of the Champs-Elysées Theater, conducted by Franck Pourcel; Westminster). This is a French operetta, vintage 1918, of the no-nudes-is-bad-nudes school. "Phi-Phi" is Athens' famed Sculptor Phidias, who as the curtain rises is out looking for a model for his new statue of Virtue. The action calls for everybody to take off his or her clothes, and even the highest hi-fi sets cannot yet reproduce that effect. But there is some pleasant singing...
...Seven Year Itch (Feldman Group Productions; 20th Century-Fox) has been hawked across the nation with one of the most teasing promotional campaigns in movie history, culminating last week in a four-story cardboard model of Marilyn Monroe simpering prettily at Times Square while her skirts are being blown up around her hips...
...right, below, a visitor enviously examines a case of cut precious stones in the Minerological Museum, and in the lower right corner, a model of a glant devilfish hangs over two museum-goers in the Comparative Zoology section...
...ship coming in. Le Monde advised Frenchmen to adopt "an active neutrality," and Combat predicted: "The word neutral will be forced on all those who discredited it." Yet the surprising fact in last week's news was the unsuspected strength of the European resistance to neutral belts, Russian model. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay took to TV to tell the French people that "German neutrality "would offer Germany all the temptations of the seesaw policy between East and West, the disastrous effect of which we all know so well...