Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the North Koreans were up to soon became clear. The U.N.'s armistice negotiations chief. Major General Olaf Keyster, demanded and got a Panmunjom session, received an answer to demands for return of the plane and passengers that was understandable as a ransom note: difficulties would be smoothed over if South Korea would recognize North Korea officially (which it has always refused to do) by entering into direct negotiations for the missing DC-3. As huge mobs of outraged Seoul citizens yelled for action, the answer came from explosive South Korean President Syngman Rhee: "No!" By early this...
...cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying, a lady stays elegant"). As for Puccini's music, Director Aoyama still feels it is out of character-Puccini's death...
...undergraduate), he is as much at home in a bull session as any student. He is deferential in class, but his professors find him an invaluable stimulus. In a sense, he has become the kindly uncle of the whole university, feeding on the youthfulness about him while giving in return the benefit of his 70 years of experience. "He likes young people," says King's Rector Charles Bosanquet, "and has sympathy for them. But he is a wise old man who has a true sense of what are the real values of life. Without appearing to preach, he does...
...Tricky Return. Return to earth will be the most ticklish part of the flight. The pilot will have the help of special flight instruments, and his object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both...
...Under a complex NBC contract, Berle is guaranteed an average $60,000 a year for the next 23 years. All he must do in return is make half a dozen more guest appearances...