Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently unharmed, and grew into a lively, likable child. In 1955, one month before graduating from grammar school, she developed the extreme lethargy that is the forerunner of "atom sickness." Hospitalized, Sadako began folding scraps of paper into flying cranes-Japanese legend holds that a sick person who makes 1,000 paper cranes will recover. Sadako got only as far as 644, and died...
...accept association, or they must secede and suffer all the "risks and perils" (i.e., no more aid) that that would involve. Then, having stated his case, the Premier strode out of the Palais Royal, announced that he would visit French West Africa and Madagascar to sell his program in person before the people troop to the polls to vote yes or no next month. He was counting on the fund of good will he had earned among Africans with his wartime Free French proclamations from Brazzaville on the Congo, and on a dawning African awareness of the possibility...
...constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this will prove a false departure, with the Africans refusing to go, depends partly on how eloquent De Gaulle proves in person on a tour of West Africa in the next fortnight. France's colonial record, splotchy elsewhere, is quite good in West Africa. And the French have shown themselves surprisingly adaptable to Africa's growing demands...
Perhaps the only person who knows him well and does not quite believe he has arrived is Jack Paar himself. Like any TV performer, Paar watches himself on a monitor set during the show, but he also seems to be watching himself on an imaginary monitor when he is not performing. Compulsive and candid talker that he is, he looks for signs of having said the wrong thing or having been misunderstood. He still broods "When will they start tearing me down?" Or "I wonder how many among my group really love me?" Says a former agent...
...CRONIN WELL INTENTIONED, SINCERE, WRITING PROVOCATIVE ARTICLE. IN LETTER TO PARENTS SCHOOL INVITED PARENTS TO DISCUSS IN PERSON ANY COMPLAINTS OR GRIEVANCES. OFFER STILL STANDS...