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...Sculptor Epstein said proudly: "It's going to be a success." Then he relaxed a bit. Someone asked him to stand by a piece he particularly liked. He walked over to a serene portrait called Marcella he had done two years ago and said: "It's the quietest and most peaceful thing in the place...
...past month, 101 guerrillas were killed (including 13 party bigwigs), 18 were captured and 24 surrendered.* In the same period, the Communists killed 14 police and two British civilians. But one day last week, a Singapore paper was able to print this terse report: "Yesterday was one of the quietest days of the emergency for many months. No battles were reported. There were no murders...
...quietest election of her modern history, Mexico this week chose Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 59, as President for the next six years. The official count will not be announced until July 20, but government estimates based on incomplete returns indicated that Ruiz Cortines had carried more than 80% of the vote. Minister of the Interior in President Miguel Aleman's government for the past four years, Ruiz Cortines was the choice of the official Party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI), which has governed the country for 22 years...
...little coal and pottery town of Crooksville (pop. 2,956), Ohio had ever set out to pick a potential hero from among its young men, it would never have chosen Ronald Rosser. Not that Ronald wasn't well liked-he was one of the quietest and best-behaved boys in town. But he just wasn't a fire-eater. He was a medium-sized (5 ft. 8 in.), medium-heavy (160 Ibs.) lad with medium brown hair, who seemed perfectly contented to lean against store fronts and watch the world-or what there was of it in Crooksville...
...85th week of war, and 31st of trucemaking, the Battle of Korea was at its quietest. U.S. casualties were less than in any other week: 29 killed, 19 missing, 189 wounded. In the air war, the Fifth Air Force last week reported the loss of three planes, lowest toll since it began pounding the enemy supply lines last August...