Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Improvising. For an 8,000-word document as cunningly loaded with distortions of the past and with booby traps for the future, the notes that Moscow had sent gave off an air of improvisation. Only the day before, Secretary Dulles -no mean lawyer-had suggested, with the hint of a smile, that the note might have been so long delayed because Soviet lawyers had to correct Khrushchev's initial impetuosity...
...this tidal wave, many a figure from the past was swept away. The Socialists, hitherto France's biggest non-Communist party, lost a staggering 55 seats (from 95 down to 40). Among defeated Socialists were ex-Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
...citizens with a firm grip on French and British history may remember, when it comes to Mexico, little more than the cinema-celebrated names of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, and the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Few are aware that in the past three decades Mexico, historically unstable (see box), has stirred itself, put away its pistols and begun an explosion of industrialization that has pulled one-third of the once-somnolent population into a new middle class...
...chiefly of fast-moving electrons and protons circulating around the earth on both sides of its magnetic equator (see diagram). Only the lower parts have been observed with any accuracy. The upper limits are deduced from knowledge of the magnetic field. The Air Force's Pioneer, soaring far past the 1,400-mile level reached by the Explorers, confirmed "tentatively and partially" that the lethal radiation drops off sharply around 7,000 miles...
...past the Lyric has put on many a fine, star-heavy performance, and last week's cast was again impressive: Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek as Aïda, Italian Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato as Amneris, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as Radames, Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi as Amonasro. But the stage sets looked as though they had been resurrected from an early copy of the Victor Book of Operas: cluttered scenes with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into...