Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worse Than Stalin." Just what the U.S. can expect when the Geneva conference resumes next week-and how little the public Kozlov grin showed the true face of Soviet policy-was plain this week when New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1943-46, reported, in LIFE and in memos to top Administration policymakers, on his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). To Harriman, Khrushchev seemed to be dangerously cocky, dangerously ignorant of the West. Even after discounting Khrushchev's performance as tactical bluffing in part, Harriman found him "shocking, worse...
...agency-charm school in the U.S.; of heart failure (she left two farewell notes and an empty bottle of barbiturates under her deathbed); in Chicago. A onetime Powers model, Pat opened a small agency of her own in Chicago in 1942, over the years added ingenious beauty lures for plain girls, upped enrollment to 2,000, grossed over $1,000,000 a year, had 41 agencies in other cities. In her last days she quarreled bitterly over control of her business with second husband Earl ("Madman") Muntz, onetime flamboyant California used-car salesman...
...most characteristic ruling gesture she can make, Elizabeth II, accompanied by her consort and a retinue of 31 ladies, maids and retainers, began an exhaustive, exhausting Canadian tour to show herself as the Commonwealth's cohesive symbol not only to the leaders but especially to the plain people of Canada...
Marty (at the Brattle, Wednesday and Thursday). This is the Oscar-winner about just plain folks, with Ernest Borgnine in the starring role, and Paddy Chayevsky responsible for the screenplay. The picture has had many, many imitations, but none has succeeded in matching the original...
...collapse was plain the first time a U.S. newsman made contact with the rebels. As TIME'S Mexico City Bureau Chief Harvey Rosenhouse walked toward a farmhouse in the jungled hills 90 miles east of Managua, he was met by Lawyer José Medina Cuadra, 30, leader of a group of 45 rebels. He and his troops, said Medina, were disheartened: "Our radio went dead. We were always short of food, and the peasants in these mountains do not have enough to spare." Medina was ready to give up. Rosenhouse sent a twelve-year-old boy to a nearby...