Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army is getting ready to pull out of Korea by the end of next month. The 7,500 occupation troops will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
Twins on the Right. Many of Erato's Greek countrymen would answer that question with a violent yes; Mamma Erato's son is Nicholas ("Nico") Zach-ariades, leader of the Communist guerrillas who harass Greece from the north. But the butcher is gentler. "There are no real Communists in Greece," he says, "only misery...
...M.R.P. chose a new president. He was Georges Bidault, one of the party's founders and France's former Foreign Minister, who had won out over Pierre Henri Teitgen, gaunt ex-Minister of Justice, his rival for the party presidency. Bidault's election raised a big question: would he lead his party rightward from its present "Third Force" position into an alliance with Charles de Gaulle...
...Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote, "until the whole world's an infrahuman ultrafamily of supersub-morons delightedly drowning in telejuke-movieradiovision." And he followed that bitter advice with the happy reminder that "Art is a question of being alive...
That was a fair question. The box-office future had looked dark, but slashing ticket prices up to 50% had brightened things considerably. Conductor Ormandy was not worried: the tour, and the Philadelphia's nearly $16,000-a-week payroll (duly noted by the London press) was guaranteed. Hardly worried. either was the guarantor-handsome, 31-year-old British Impresario Harold Fielding, who stood to make up in publicity and prestige what he would shell out of his pocket. Moreover, on a turnabout's-fair-play basis, U.S. Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo would welcome British orchestras...