Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked in a swimming pool for an hour and a half. (Skeptics insisted that he had chemicals in the coffin to absorb carbon dioxide. But Houdini simply knew...
Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in full, together with some hot-tempered letters from readers: "It is not necessary to exaggerate, Mr. Nixon...
...effort to measure at least part way up to such an example, English editors have placed unsavory divorces on their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry...
...Pittsburgh. He changed his name legally in 1950, after he became a Moslem. Says he mystically: "When my people were brought over here from Asia and Africa, they were given various names, such as Jones and Smith. I haven't adopted a name. It's a part of my ancestral background and heritage: I have re-established my original name. I have gone back to my own vine and fig tree...
Empire's Clerks. In part, independent India's university problem is the product of its British heritage. The system that the British colonial rulers inaugurated 125 years ago gave them plenty of English-schooled clerks and civil servants-and gave the aspiring Indian the prestige of a post in which he would never again have to do manual labor. But long after it became apparent that India's crying need was not academic intellectuals but builders, engineers, doctors, technicians and social workers, Indian universities have been dishing out classical education along the old British lines...