Word: obsessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But what was surprising was not the cheers, but the lack of more of them. In India the Hindustan Times carefully emphasized that Russia was better able than the U.S. to take such a step because the Soviets had just completed an extensive series of tests. In Japan, despite a...
¶ The U.S. has suffered from a propaganda failure. Despite a national obsession with "good public relations," no U.S. Administration has ever found a means of capitalizing on its anti-colonialism in Asia and Africa without bitterly antagonizing the colonial powers of Europe.
Flops & Fiascos. In the first half of 1957 alone, East Germany lost 7,400,000 man-hours because of a lack of raw materials, broken-down machinery, and all-round bad planning. The Ulbricht obsession with increasing exports has had some preposterous results. Items: ¶EastGermany offered to build oil...
"Even Murder." Nathan Leopold, brilliant son of a millionaire Chicago businessman, youngest (18) graduate of the University of Chicago, lived in a strange, dark world of Nietzsche's superman-and of Richard Loeb, 18, son of another rich Chicagoan. "Their coming together," said Clarence Darrow, "was the means of...
The Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster...