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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church heard the warm praise extended by a people who regard him as a ranking hero of the revolution that tossed out Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. From Cuba to Argentina, the church is taking a critical look at its old role as friend of the top dog and is often charting a new, antidictatorial course...
...speak too often of American collectors who have French or Italian castles transported stone by stone across the Atlantic," a contrite French art critic wrote last week. Then he added, with an air of surprise: "Robert Lehman, the banker from New York who is currently showing 300 of his treasures at the Orangerie des Tuileries is, truth to tell, an amateur of art with the best of taste." For once the rest of Paris' many-hued press was in agreement ; the Louvre's guest show for the summer was a smash hit and the talk of Paris. Editorialized...
...tried hard to make it precise. The one kind of equipment on which he has not stinted money is a battery of recording machines. From transcripts of therapy sessions counselors can check their own and one another's performances; aspirants in training can learn the method-and clients often ask to have recordings played back to them, to help them understand changes in themselves...
...office each morning. Though the file box he calls the "item-smasher" is usually filled with rough notes for the column each day, Caen is haunted by the fear that he will run dry, or that San Franciscans will someday tire of hearing about San Francisco. Herb Caen has often been touted as Hearst HQ's choice to succeed aging Gossipist Walter Winchell, if and when W.W. ever retires. But even if Caen could spread his broad interests beyond San Francisco and nationalize his parochial, easygoing style, it is unlikely that he would ever willingly abdicate his caliphdom...
...stars, they fell back on dead reckoning. By recording the ship's direction and its motion through the water, they tried to keep track of its position. The system did not work very well, chiefly because of crude instruments and because the effect of ocean currents was often unknown. But if a ship could have measured accurately its motion across the solid ocean bottom instead of the fluid surface, dead reckoning would have brought it to any harbor through the thickest...