Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Red army in control of Hungary, bulletheaded Communist Party Boss Matyas Rakosi, a onetime Kun lieutenant, set out to grab power. Using what he called salami tactics-a slice at a time-Rakosi cut off his opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...
Already Nasser seemed to be back at his old trick of playing off East against West. As if to flaunt in Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal...
...Lloyd P. Jordan inherited from ex-coach Art Valpey a team which had won only one of nine games the previous year. Three years later Jordan produced the College's first winning season since 1946. But after three winning seasons, his teams began the descent which ended this fall in a meager 2-6 record...
...Home Companion (see below), the news at first seemed a possible cause for concern. McCall Corp., publishers of McCall's and Redbook, announced a 50% cut in its quarterly dividends from 30? to 15?. Though McCall's revenue was up $6,000,000 in the first nine months (to $46,116,539), earnings were down 16% to $758,276. McCall said it was saving cash "to finance future growth." What the company did not say was that the dividend cut was the work of a strong new hand that is guiding McCall...
...charm of Much Ado About Me is its period-piece Americana. It tells of the last fun Fred Allen had being funny. To the radio years, he brought his nagging instinct for perfectionism. TV he merely lip-serviced waspishly. To Much Ado About Me (finished shortly before his death nine months ago), Allen brought not only the fondness of his memories, but the rueful tone and the hint of deri sion that, years before, led him to write...