Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(See Cover) In the vast, air-conditioned, limestone building covering five acres of Washington, D.C. which Harold Ickes built for his Interior Department in 1936, there is a sixth-floor suite lovingly planned by Ickes for Ickes. Two private elevators lead to the Ickes suite; two Alaskan totem poles flank...
In Washington, Secretary Dulles turned his harassed attention, momentarily, to the mess in Korea. In that forlorn country, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission-composed, under the truce terms, of Swiss, Swedish, Polish and Czech members-is causing concern to the conscientious neutrals, more concern to the U.S. Aside from any...
Polish, not Potholes. The Go-Between, a moviemaker's dream, has also been hailed by British critics as one of the best novels to come out of postwar England. Certainly it is one of the most significant, and worth study by anyone who wants to know where English fiction...
Last week, casting sentiment to the winds, the city fathers of New Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk...
Without a Horse. Lerner is more of a stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with...