Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, when the Ziegfeld Follies put their feathers and bangles away, when the "legitimate theater" was pushed off gay, white Broadway into the dusky sidestreets of Manhattan, when the movies killed vaudeville and when the movies in turn were nearly killed by TV-each time, the gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld...
...cracking down ever harder, and systematically sealing up every tiny gap in the Bamboo Curtain. The foreign press colony is now almost nonexistent in Peking. In the past six months, nearly two score Chinese servants employed in foreign embassies in Peking (including even that of "comradely" Czechoslovakia) have been whisked off to jail. Last week Mao's government ruled that the embassies and foreign business concerns could no longer hire their own employees, must accept people sent to them by the State Labor Bureau...
Saber & Specter. Obviously, any breath of outside air is, in China's present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad...
...West appeared to slip a bit. Baghdad censors permitted the newspaper Al-Yakdha to boast: "We have no reason not to consider ourselves part of the United Arab Republic." The Baghdad radio announced that 111 prisoners (39 of them army officers) would shortly be tried by military courts for past crimes against the state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling U.S. troops in Lebanon a "threat to international peace'' and a violation of the U.N. charter. Iraq's new Premier, Brigadier...
...preceding last week's anniversary, 65 in Hiroshima and atom-bombed Nagasaki died of "atomic sickness." In the previous twelve months, the total deaths had been 36; in the year before that, 20. Another statistic was just as chilling: of 32,000 children born in Hiroshima in the past 13 years, nearly one in six was deformed or stillborn. U.S. Dr. George B. Darling of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission protests that "the incidence of abnormal births to parents never exposed to atomic radiation is higher than the layman suspects, and it's understandable that when...