Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Security Council to deny it U.N. membership. Some sources in Dacca now believe that Peking will recognize Bangladesh even before Pakistan does. That would allow the Chinese to recover a profitable market for their manufactured goods-and offset the favorable impression that Moscow made in Bangladesh by its postwar relief efforts...
...girl from Petrovka." That will be her next role in a movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became convinced that there is "no room for a free spirit" in the U.S.S.R. and flew with relief to London to prepare for the filming, to take place soon in Yugoslavia...
...Vaccine. In an effort to calm the jumpy public, officials ordered that streets and storefronts in Rome and Naples be washed down with disinfectant -a strategy designed largely to provide psychological, not medical, relief. Vaccination centers, staffed in part by medics from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, managed to immunize at least 85% of Naples' 1,278,000 people against the disease...
Yankee Monet. The world became permeable. Patterns, arcs, straight lines, enclosures and tangencies now became the syntax of Kelly's formal language, in painting as in sculpture. He did not, in short, start from geometry. Thus Relief with Blue, 1950, whose flaring curves channel the eye into a pale blue slot like a narrow doorway, was suggested by the drapery of a set for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Hamlet, which Kelly saw in Paris. Other paintings evolved from sketches Kelly made of arches reflected in the Seine, of water ripples, or of shadows on the metal...
...doubly disastrous because it came on the heels of the most damaging floods the country had seen in 30 years. President Luis Echeverría, who had toured flooded areas in Central Mexico only two days before the quake, visited the stricken villages to take charge of the relief work. Reconstruction, however, may have to be delayed. At week's end, torrential rains had resumed, threatening to topple buildings already weakened by the quake...