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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
Froth v. Fundamentals. John Gunther's critics often scorn his slickly, quickly produced Insides as superficial glimpses through hotel windows. He has been dubbed "the Book-of-the-Month Club's Marco Polo," a "Jonah among journalists," "master of the once-over-lightly." Gunther brushed off Venezuela in 24 hours while researching Inside Latin America, skipped the Ivory Coast entirely on his Inside Africa trip. At the start of his 17 months on the road for Inside U.S.A., Gunther himself recalls, he sped out of Rhode Island in horror after realizing suddenly that he had spent "eight whole...
...University of Denver postponed an athletic crisis by remembering that transfer students must wait a year before playing on varsity teams. Until someone read the rule book, the university golf team, which often practices at private clubs, faced a season of play restricted to public courses. A likely looking 19-year-old sophomore who had transferred from Doane College, Crete, Neb. seemed certain to make the team-and just as sure not to be welcome at Denver's private clubs. The promising golfer is named Nate Goldstein. He is a Negro...
...effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely photograph. We try to reveal and enrich." He often starts with a folk melody, watches the company improvise while the orchestra plays it, then works out a finished dance movement and has a fully orchestrated score fitted to it. To prepare themselves for their hybrid dance styles, the go members of the company train in a special department...
...surprise, Experimenter Ritchie found that the method seemed to work. The comparison group getting inert injections had colds five times as often as the vaccinated. Many of the vaccinated got sniffles for a day or two. presumably from the irresistible virus, but then their colds usually stopped: during the test, they had only 13 "full colds," as against 77 for the controls...