Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever Russia's future intentions, the events of last week had produced the most dramatic break yet in the long cold war. It was the climax to a strange new pattern in diplomatic tactics, which had casually begun in the U.N. delegates' lounge at Lake Success and had come to a head a fortnight ago with the first hint of U.S.-Russian agreement on Berlin...
...other new jobs in her time. Except for a brief stint in advertising, she has been in the magazine business ever since 1930, when she started with Conde Nast as a $30-a-week assistant in Vogue's promotion department. Before long she was editing both the Vogue Pattern Book and a cheaper one which the company had decided to start. It was such a hit that she sold Conde Nast the idea of a fashion magazine aimed at a cheaper audience than Vogue's; two months later, in March 1939, Glamour was on the stands...
...Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards to "equalize" facilities...
Murder for the Doctor. As a result of such indifference, moral disintegration overwhelms a French civil servant in Saigon, overtakes a black-marketeering colonel in Manila. But it is in the title story that Shaplen does his most explicit preaching. True to pattern, U.S. Army 1st Lieut. Robert Gordon is a man of good will and hazy intention when he gets to Macao on leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves...
Following the pattern set in all meets this spring, Carl Olsen's half and mile runners swept their events, while sprinter Dick Weiskopf won both the 100 and 220 yard dashes. The '52s also took first and second in the quarter and the broad jump, and a first in the hammer...