Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Parliament or the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. goes into session in Moscow tomorrow. The Deputies and the Soviet people at large note that the present session will reflect the changed atmosphere in the country wherein the harmful results of un-Soviet personality cult that cropped up in the last years of Stalin's life are being successfully eradicated. The Communist Party and the Soviet government have already done a great deal to develop genuine people's democracy in this country to the fullest...
...Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong, and able to note a slight transformation in Khrushchev's drinking pattern that had taken place early in the match...
...brown-haired Peter Weinberger was sleeping off his midday bottle when his mother stepped into the house for a fresh diaper one afternoon last week. Fifteen minutes later, Beatrice Weinberger walked outside and found that 32-day-old Peter had been kidnaped. On the ground was a neatly written note demanding $2,000 ransom, to be placed near a neighbor's garage. Wrote the kidnaper: "I'm scared stiff. Do not notify the police until noon tomorrow or I'll be forced to kill the baby...
Next day the Long Island countryside swarmed with reporters, photographers and TV cameramen. Newsmen interviewed the Weinbergers' neighbors and the neighbors' children, besieged the parents with calls. At 10 a.m., when Weinberger placed the ransom at the nearby spot specified in the note, three newsmen were allowed to watch from a car. To no one's surprise, the kidnaper did not keep his date...
...telephone rang last week in Mrs. Risedorf's home, the caller carried on a lewd conversation, made a date with Reporter Risedorf. When he showed up, the waiting cops pounced, arrested Donald J. Shannon, 33. He promptly pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. There was only one embarrassing note in Newsday's fine detective work. Shannon turned out to be a Newsday employee-a district circulation manager. He was promptly fired...