Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, the U.S. Navy issued a pious pronouncement. It had banned From Here to Eternity, a movie about sex, sadism and misery in the pre-World War II Army, because the film is "derogatory to a brother service." The Navy took this solicitous stand despite the fact that the Army-Air Force Motion Picture Service had already approved the movie. Said Brigadier General Frank Dorn, the Army's deputy chief of information: "The general reaction at the end is good for the Army...
More interesting were the works of Russia's pre-revolutionary artists. Not so concerned with depicting Utopia, they showed pathetic trains of cold-numbed peasants crossing the steppes on sleighs, a stooped little stoker with immense gnarled hands, weary Volga boatmen, a slushy country road stretching across endless plains...
...Steel. Once, prices were fixed in each of five areas-France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium-Luxembourg. Currency barriers and price controls restricted exports. With the lifting of controls, steel prices found a steady level. They recently dropped slightly, and with a pre-election price cut in Germany averaging 5%, are going lower. Customers are holding out for cheaper prices, but Monnet wants to keep them high enough to finance modernization and expansion...
...brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...
...commit adultery. How well-grounded this fear may be is still far from clear. So far, there is concrete evidence that the Kinsey book has had any such effect, and studies at colleges have shown post-Kinsey youth to be no different from the pre-Kinsey group. Court records show no increase in sex offenses. Many psychologists doubt that anyone intelligent enough to follow Kinsey's complicated statistical report would be impressionable enough to be. in the phrase of New York's late Mayor Walker, "ruined by a book...