Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they well know that it can be a candidate's valued friend in an area that encompasses two-thirds of the statewide vote. For example, in the major fight that is shaping up between Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination, Norman Chandler's quiet word on 1960 may come as a political bombshell: "I think Dick Nixon would make one of the finest Presidents the U.S. has ever had. Bill Knowland is a fine man, but if they are both candidates for the G.O.P. nomination in 1960, Mr. Nixon will get the support...
Once a conical chimney of belching fire and fury, the great peak of Iran's Mt. Demavend, towering 18,600 ft. high in the Elburz range north of Teheran, has long reigned in quiet white dignity. But hidden deep beneath Demavend's base, primeval subterranean fires still rage. In a few minutes, one day last week, in a gargantuan effort to adjust to the fury deep within the earth, a vast arc of the earth's crust, curving out some 250 miles on either side of Mt. Demavend, shuddered and heaved in a mighty earthquake that laid...
Dead Aim. Marty's pal was quiet, tousle-haired Curtis Raymond Edwards, 14, son of a Germantown widow living on social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis...
...last October the quiet revolution came to Morawice. The people of the village heard newly appointed Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka say on the radio that no more money would be spent subsidizing collectives. Says Zofia Szczygiel: "Everybody out in the fields threw down their tools and went home for a drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...
...year contract with RCA Victor, is negotiating a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox and a contract with NBC to do four TV spectaculars a year for five years. He has also teamed up with Ed Murrow to produce a See It Now show on the quiet pools of native culture that have survived the intrusions of modern life, e.g., remote hamlets of the Appalachians, tiny islands off the Georgia coast. But whatever else he does, Belafonte knows that he wants to go on touring the country. Says he: "I've got to get to Hays, Kansas, Salt...