Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of Death of a Salesman at the Phoenix,* which like most London theaters is not air-conditioned, gentlemen sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around...
Namesake of a Queen. Dimitrios was in excellent standing with the Greek army, which considered him a loyal nationalist and supplied him with arms for his village guard. Dimitrios, in turn, denounced as Communists many of his fellow villagers. The army never noticed that most of those he denounced were husbands or fiances of pretty village women. Nor did the army find it suspicious that, whenever the guerrillas attacked in the region, Klidi was spared...
Pint-sized José Figueres once described himself as "a literary socialist farmer with a kind of Atlantic Monthly mind." Thrust into politics as President of Costa Rica's ruling junta, he has never been quite able to decide whether to chuck politics for the bookish quiet of his coffee finca (farm), or to stay on in San José to finish the uphill fight for his program of "neo-liberalism."* Last week Pepe Figueres made his choice...
Though Air Lift had never raced before, the crowd at Jamaica made him second choice in the betting at a little better than...
Jack Reichart, a 64-year-old inventor and appliance manufacturer of Muncie, Ind. had never seen an "iron lung" respirator in his life. Last week he was asked to make one in a hurry. Muncie's Ball Memorial Hospital, which owned the only iron lung in three counties, suddenly had 28 polio (infantile paralysis) patients on its hands. That lung was in use when Rue Steel, an eight-year-old boy who urgently needed a respirator, was brought in. Hospital Superintendent Nellie Brown asked Reichart if he could turn out an emergency...