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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands of Muhutus, feeling the strength of their superior numbers, turned almost every hill into a natural fortress. Though the Muhutus left the Watutsi women and children alone, they showed no mercy to the males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations to the torch, set dozens of villages afire, left some...
...Federal Trade Commission was harder to sway. Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine...
Robert H. L. Slater, professor of World Religions, emphasized that Harvard had been chosen as the site of the new center "due to the facilities and scholars now at the University." He cited the number of professor at Harvard already engaged in studies of comparative religions and the extensive program of language studies as factors in the decision...
...Andromache, Johanna Shaw overcomes a certain flatness of tone to portray the concerned and anxious wife of Hector. John Beck, doubling as the crafty Ulysses, presents a fine portrait of the experienced and uningenuous Greek ambassador. Christopher Rawson's portrayal of Paris as a complete sensualist involved an excessive number of effeminate hand-on-hip gestures...
...large number of old men are convincingly portrayed. Despite the difficulty of such roles for students, the actors manage to play the parts with the necessary cracked voices, without monotony, while establishing a separate identity for each...