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...were not its leaders, but its subjects. At home the Kremlin was harassed by the restlessness of the Soviet masses and a serious crisis in agriculture. Abroad, it suffered sharp setbacks-an armistice that acknowledged its failure in Korea, the uprisings in East Germany, a rash of troubles in the other East European satellites, the stunning psychological defeat in the explanation tents of Panmunjom...
...late fall of 1762 seven stern-faced Puritans gathered in the drafty study of President Holyoke's house to ponder a recent rash of "frivolity" fast spreading through the Yard. After an hour of heated discourse the Corporation unanimously ruled...
...when his wife, before they were married, made the trip in the yellow Spyker. His discontent takes the form of a belligerent insistence that his car is better than the other, and the two soon rooster each other into a race back to London, with the rash sum of ?100 riding on the outcome...
Nine months ago, in honor of its 75th anniversary, General Electric announced that it would give five shares of stock to each baby born to an employee's family on Oct. 15, the company's birthday. It proved to be a rash promise, especially since it was based on the computation of William D. Haylon, the bachelor in charge of the baby derby. He had estimated that only 13 babies would be born. Instead, 180 were born in the 24 hours of the birthday last week. To their parents. G.E. will turn over about $71,000 worth...
...Hollywood finally given in to TV? Not quite. A few movie figures, notably Robert Montgomery, had long been familiar faces on television; some, like Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings, had propped up sagging careers by taking the television plunge. This season's rash of film stars on TV amounts to a sudden upswing in the trend, but the big-studio, big-star antipathy toward television still exists...