Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying to Berlin from "out there" at midweek, Chancellor Adenauer pledged still more budget aid and factory orders from the West. "If we do not become frightened," he told Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt and other rain-soaked welcomers at Tempelhof Airport, "we and our Western allies will master the situation." And then these two men, in accord on the big issues, went their separate politicking ways. Adenauer was careful to criticize West German Socialists like Ollenhauer, but not Socialist Brandt. And Brandt did not bother to campaign against his Christian Democratic opponent, Ernst Lemmer, a member of Adenauer...
...sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble as my own people...
...Night Circus (by Michael V. Gazzo) finds the author of A Hatful of Rain once again garishly grim. His scene, shifting between a crummy, dimly lit bar and a sleazy apartment, fits the play's characters with their inner loneliness, outer violence, anarchic dreams. Into the bar, on her wedding eve, comes a beautiful girl (Janice Rule) in prenuptial revolt against a stodgy suburban future; next day she returns, in her wedding dress, to go off with a hard-boiled sailor (well played by Ben Gazzara). The rest of the play concerns the unborn child of the fiance...
...Rain and pre-holiday traffic on Wednesday resulted in three accidents which hospitalized a Harvard motorcyclist and two Radcliffe bicyclists...
...Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood-swept houses, trees, telephone poles, cows, chickens, and a mob trying to beat him to death. His head bloodied, utterly bushed, Strong Man Hayden finally dropped Actress Page while lugging her through the flood, dislocating her back. ¶ Broadcasting from Hollywood-for the first time since he left movieland...