Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forward this new impression, it was necessary first to smash an old idol. Overnight the world saw the myth of modern Communism's demigod junked, and the great man's works and ways dismissed as "20 years of dictatorship and lies." The very name of Stalin all but disappeared from the press. On Army Day his picture was missing from its place of honor beside Lenin's in Moscow's Central Army Theater. "Svetlana's Breath," the bestselling perfume named for Stalin's daughter, vanished from the perfume counter in Moscow's Hotel...
Usually, however, M.I.T. pranks have a more scientific twist. A few years ago when Massachusetts Ave. was being re-paved, one of the workmen left his steam-roller parked overnight along the curb. As a precaution, he dismantled certain key parts of the motor and piled them up on the seat. But he underestimated the M.I.T. man's ingenuity. The steamroller was soon restored to running condition and was found next morning at Harvard in President Conant's front yard...
...parking problem has already begun to hurt Harvard Square merchants, and it is not much better in Central Square. The only hopeful factor in this field is that the much-discussed overnight parking problem is really not a problem but a political football. The planning board has advocated alternate side overnight parking for years. But the planning board does not legislate...
...take [four] wives only if he treats them equally." But the Sultan's daughter, who lives in a palace which not only contains the Sultan's two wives but his more than 20 concubines, is willing to admit that full emancipation will not be achieved overnight. "The older generation," she says, "is not going to do anything. It's the children who must revolutionize Morocco...
...turned out well over 60% of its goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where the Pullman Building will be replaced by a 20-story skyscraper tinted gold; the star blazed briefly on Davy Crockett, who rocketed overnight into a $100 million moppet madness, on Ford's newborn $10,000 Continental-and on cigar makers, who had their best year since 1929 as 10 million Americans contentedly puffed 6.1 billion cigars. As 1955 ended, the U.S. could look back and truthfully say, as did Seattle Banker Miner...