Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Galveston went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran...
In the stale language of the cold war, this was the conference that could not succeed; rarely in history had an international meeting been so discounted beforehand. "What is the use of a foreign ministers' meeting?" asked Russia's Mikoyan. "We'll just send Gromyko here, he...
The Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of...
Nothing to Lose. Some Brazilians like to think that Brazil has stumbled onto some miracle of economic alchemy. "It is like the bumblebee," says Publisher Manuel de Vasconcelos. "According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee ignores the law, and flies anyway." Deliberately, President Juscelino...
"I'm sure none of my friends in New York expected this when I left five years ago," he said last week in his still Manhattan-tinted accent as he puffed a Dunhill cigarette. But he saw nothing odd about an American occupying a bastion of Britain. Said Anglican...