Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PAUL RAVENNA...
Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places and into the beds of Iron Curtain delegates, or handed it out openly in the Prater. For their pains, at least nine-four of them girls-were roughed...
Last December, when Glezos was arrested again, accused along with 16 others of having abetted Communist spies in Greece, Moscow saw another fine chance to capitalize on Western sentimentality; with a wild beating of propaganda drums, Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov appealed to Greece's King Paul to free Glezos, now a left-wing newspaper editor. But years of servility to the hammer and sickle had finally exhausted the credit that Glezos won by defying the Nazis. Last week, found guilty by a military court, onetime Hero Glezos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, four years' exile...
...successful emigrant had freighted his American car (a mid-50s model) back to Lebanon to impress his home villagers. He had a rude awakening. "They've all got 1959 models!" he complained. Premier Rashid Karami, Maronite Patriarch Paul Meouchi (once of Los Angeles), and even usually aloof President Fuad Chehab posed smilingly for pictures with the visitors. Most of the expatriates seemed glad to see the old country, but would they like to stay? "Of course I'm going back," snapped one conventioner. "I just came here to dream...