Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On October 13, 1957, the British television audience was offered a live broadcast from St. Augustine's, Highgate, where the Communion service was being celebrated, it appeared, in a new fashion. Whatever was said by the solemn ecclesiastical gentleman who opened the program could hardly have prepared his viewers for...
Trouble. In Squaw's first five years of operation, avalanches ripped out lift towers three times. The lodge was cut off four times by bridge washouts, flooded out twice, later (in 1956) burned to the ground. Poulsen and Cushing had increasingly sharp differences. The showdown came in October 1949...
(Daughter of Darkness) and back to Manhattan for TV (Cradle Song and The Letter). Between assignments she lives with husband Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed...
He is not afraid to tangle with politicians. When Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader told Michigan's Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams that he would swap him the Pennsy for Michigan's General Motors, Symes wrote a cheerfully insulting letter to Leader, saying he would gladly give Leader...
Ne Kulturny, For the prospective traveler in the U.S.S.R. Levine supplies a cautionary list of what is ne kulturny (not cultured). Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants. Men should never put their feet on desks or cross...