Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That increase in the quality of academic ability which the CEP report reflects and tried to channel is perhaps a cause of the increase in the number of "voluntary withdrawals" from the College. In the past two years these have risen from 75 to 145, a fact which Leighton sees as perhaps "a reflection of mounting emotional tensions...
Among the heroic figures in Indo-China's past, no two are more revered than the fabled Trungs-the beautiful young sisters who raised an army against the Chinese invaders in the middle of the 1st century and, faced with defeat, threw themselves into the Red River rather than surrender...
...from all over the world rated top priority with rebel couriers, who escorted them into the hills. For his 1957 interview with New York Timesman Herbert Matthews, Castro made a dangerous trip to the foothills, got invaluable publicity from the U.S.'s most prestigious paper. Other reporters, getting past army checkpoints as "engineer" or "sugar planter," had to make an arduous climb, but they were rewarded with long, friendly chats. To oblige CBS, the rebels took in 160 lbs. of television equipment. One big-paper correspondent on his way up was crestfallen to discover a reporter from...
Redhead, a musical now being tuned up in Philadelphia for high-kicking Dancer Gwen (Damn Yankees) Verdon, is described by Lyricist Dorothy Fields: "This is a happy show. It does absolutely nothing for the theater." Translation: a likely Broadway hit (opening Feb. 5), with advance sales already past $1,000,000. The story: something about a dreamy London chick (Verdon), working in a turn-of-the-century waxworks, who gets tied up with a U.S. vaudeville strong man. In Washington, the Daily News's Critic Tom Donnelly called Redhead "a mad blend of Agatha Christie and Mack Sennett...
...program added up to a good job of tabloid reporting. While the facts were scarcely new, the anonymous voices (disguised by electronic gadgets to prevent identification) made for excitement. The show was a sample of a growing form of radio journalism, used in the past on CBS's report on juvenile delinquency and on the Murphy-Galindez case. Despite its authenticity and immediacy, the trouble with such reporting is apt to be lack of evaluation. The Business of Sex raised but never attempted to answer the crucial question of whether the use of prostitutes in business is "an isolated...