Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the head), it has gone on to plastic materials that look like human skin. The "gloves" on its artificial hands now bear fingerprints which must be registered with the FBI. Latest gimmick: putting a human-type pigment in the plastic, so that the hands, instead of turning green, retain their color even under fluorescent light...
...tillon's new policy of selective assimilation will not make the Congo a democracy, for the government, in the person of the Little Lion, fully intends to retain "control through veto." Yet in the absence of a white-dominated parliament, benevolent despotism in the Congo may do more than some African democracies to bring peace and some kind of assured future for Africa's blacks and whites...
...point a finger of suspicion at a man that does not deserve it." Talbott, whose Government pay is $18,000 a year, said that his income from Mulligan & Co. is more than $50,000 a year (no significant change since 1953). Said he: "I was very anxious to retain my interest in Mulligan on account of the income, which I felt I needed." However, he offered to give up the partnership and income completely if the subcommittee would clear him of any misconduct, and "if ... I will be helping the Air Force and the Administration...
...World One Knows. In the same tradition, Sculptor Aristide Maillol's woodcuts for a 1924 edition of Virgil's Eclogues reduce the human figure to a flattish, quietly harmonious arrangement of ink lines, yet retain the emotive power of illustration. The observer automatically identifies himself with Maillol's figures; looking at the illustrations, he moves in a world he knows. Villon's new illustrations to the same cycle of poems (see below) employ color and perspective to create an even more recognizable, i.e., convincing, world...
...only other team with a chance for the title, Boston College just week suffered its second league loss and the varsity, with a perfect 5-0 league mark can now afford to drop its last league contest against Tufts on June 10 and still retain the championship...